Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups
Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.
In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump stated that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is, along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, “contrary to the interests of the United States” and will be ditched.
The UNFCCC treaty forms the bedrock of international co-operation to deal with the climate crisis and has been agreed to by every country in the world since its inception 34 years ago. The US Senate ratified the treaty in October 1992.
Trump has, however, routinely ridiculed climate science as a “scam” and a “hoax” and has actively hobbled clean energy projects and other climate policies as president, attempting to force the US and other countries to stay wedded to the fossil fuels that are driving disastrous heatwaves, storms, droughts and conflicts that imperils billions of people around the world.
I am frustrated by the things that the MAGA movement does, led of course by Trump. But I am even more frustrated by the Americans who refuse to see the systemic failures that have made all of this possible, inevitable even. If you do not see by now that our governmental and political institutions and systems possess fatal flaws, and thus need to be changed, you’re part of the problem.
I get what you’re saying. But what are random citizens going to do when half of them are brainwashed into sucking trumps toes? Example I’m just a random mechanic in a random town and a random state. There’s nothing I could ever do
There’s nothing I can do so why even try? /s basically you’ve surrendered to fascism because you can’t be bothered to fight. This is why the world looks at the US and says all Americans are to blame. Because even the ones who say they voted democratic, are unwilling to do anything about what’s happening. Do you think when people in other countries protest and cause general strikes etc… that they don’t have to worry About those same things? Most of those people have even more to lose, like the risk of getting gunned down, but they still have the courage to fight for their rights.
Okay, so then what could I do? Please inform me
Have you never studied history in school?
So in other words, you don’t know.
Yeah, it’s not hard to point at problems and call them what they are. Much more so to identify an effective action plan.
And it’s easy to call for (or in this case make vague as hell implications towards) collective revolutionary violence when it won’t be you or your loved ones’ blood and bodies in the street.