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.
Nobody is meeting climate goals.
We have blown past the 1.5C marker and will probably keep heating the planet until it kills us all.
Don’t have kids.
Man, those epstein files must be fucking nuts with all the shit he’s been stirring up lately.
You know those millions of documents that haven’t been released yet. They all just repeatedly say “Trump did all of it” over and over again. The blackout markers keep running out of ink, they bought all of Costco’s supply and now they have to do delay for more to be in stock. Unfortunately they are made in China and are therefore subject to tariffs.
There’s still 100x more documents
1% released, 99% not definitely. also most of the people besides trump and few others are sitll unkown, and likely contains so many ceos, politicians all over the globe.
Gotta lay the foundation for small squabbles so that we can build a proper straw man whenever we wanna invade our allies.
There has to be selfies with his mushroom dick in known victims. His starting WWIII just to distract.
nah just good ol us imperialism.
Which treaty is the one he really wants to dissolve? I bet it’s one Russia wants dead.
3 more long, long, very long years left
Even after he is gone, this shit show will remain.
Welcome to the new age
I think if people understood the fukkin scale of things they wouldn’t be this blaise about Trump ruining our world.
Even if some magical Socialism Champion fell from the sky and was nurtured by climate activists to take the seat of power and people universally loved them, it would take decades at this point to fix half the shit that Trump’s goons broke.
Everyone knows Trump could die tomorrow and bets are favoring he won’t live through the next year. There will be celebrating in the streets and the GOP broadly will fall to pieces as everyone tries to grasp onto the fleeting traces of power left behind, and it will seem great… as we elect some neo-lib like Gavin Newsom in 2028 who will promptly resume our status-quo descent into corporate oligarchy and preserving the assets and interests of capital. About 30% of his executive orders will per performatively repealed and we will keep the blockade around Venezuela and and ICE will still be on the streets. Because all of this is good for the bottom line.
The rich pedophiles have successfully forced an apocalypse on the human race to prevent them from losing any fraction of power.
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.
More outrage? How much outrage is too much? It’s been going on for a while now. I’m starting to think that all media is complicit with the new world order.
Anyone know how that works LEGALLY? If it’s ratified by the senate, I have to assume it’s not legal for the executive branch to decide unilaterally to drop it. If that’s true and there’s still someone allowed standing, that lawsuit ought to be successful
It is federal law once it’s a treaty. I believe that only Congress can change it.
Wow it’s almost like we need Congress to pass laws to ratify treaties if they are to be meaningful.
Yeah wtf they been doing? Are there never enough people to get it passed or something else?
I am outraged with every free breath that that child rapist takes. I don’t mind the orange thing being alive BUT only if it’s in prison.
If not, then dead is the next acceptable option.WTF - there were any left he hadn’t already pissed on?
He had to wet them first to soften them up for the wipe.
Fuck you, Mercer.
At first I thought the title said “Orange as Trump”
