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Syria signs Paris Agreement - leaving US only country in the world to refuse climate change deal
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Nicaragua actually didn't sign it because it the agreement didn't do enough.
Apparently they are planning to sign it anyways.
It's Syria, one country. Having the bar of not using chemical weapons on your own people should at least be a bar from participating on the world stage. Plus the absurdity of someone who has ruined his country and butchered his people committed to doing it more eco friendly. Assad doesn't even have the means to rebuild, much less doing it while reducing carbons.
Nordicus already noted it, but here's an article for proof:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/americas/nicaragua-paris-climate-agreement-us.html
Yeah, it was a protest vote that was overshadowed by Trump fuck up #2472.
Ugh, the most powerful country in the world relegated to the role of bully not invited to the party of the year.
Actually, judging by his past behavior, there's a very good chance he'll try to crash it.
Actually, judging by his past behavior, there's a very good chance he'll try to crash it.
Depending on how you look at it global warming actually exacerbated the Syria situation or at least sped up the initial action.
Won't be the last either.
But the reality is Assad had other countries on his side, I think it could easily descend into the usual geopolitical arguments and nothing getting done.
Russia/Iran had already signed on and committed o the accords. Syria wasn't integral to this, and isn't going to change the framework or even has the ability to enact the changes. Seems like a huge oversight in thinking.
There are plenty of authoritarian regimes that are already part of the agreement.
Bit late to draw a line in the sand on human rights issues.
Perhaps I'm getting it wrong but I would think you would need agreement to exclude them, I don't know if that is possible or it would have needed to have been part of the negotiations etc.
I think the agreement is worth putting up with Syria signing on, we just need the USA to do what is right.
I want to say I'm particularly disappointed, but it's par for the course with him. -very long sigh-
If you want to exclude Syria, then there are a shitload of other countries, including the US, Russia and China, that you could make compelling arguments for not letting into the club, at which point the whole thing becomes meaningless.
As said by previous poster, the environment isn't political. I disagree with the politics of many countries that are signatories, but that doesn't mean I can't be happy to see that they aren't so short-sighted as to publicly write-off the planet for short-term political advantage at home.
Assad's regime cares about the environment as much as it cares for human lives
they're trying to reclaim legitimacy on the international stage, they didn't sign because they are so concerned about the climate
This is embarrassing. How can we hold our heads high as ""leaders of the free world"" when we can't even acknowledge basic facts that LITERALLY EVERY OTHER COUNTRY agrees upon?
The guy who followed that poster fell into a frozen lake to his death.
I'm waiting for us to fall into our frozen lake soon...
America has become the nation where facts are just other opinions. You really, really, REALLY need to fix your educational system, because it somehow led to this.
So you mean like what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen, or what Myanmar is currently up to, or what about NK, or Russia, etc? Assad isn't the only monster signed up. If you're going to exclude Syria, exclude the rest of them as well.
I've been saying this from the beginning of the election. It is not possible for a human being with the most basic education to be suckered by Trump and his entire administration.
Makes me glad I'm in California, which is heavily involved in fighting climate change. Would be awesome if California actually got invited to the next summit, but the Trump administration wasn't.
Fuck Trump and fuck the people who put him into the white house. The US is a fucking disgrace now.
Horrible regimes can have their weirdly progressive singular views, especially when it comes to issues like climate change that have already ravaged Syria pretty badly so that could give even the shittiest of regimes like Syria's reason to go forward with trying to fight against it. Doesn't make them any less horrible, but it's not out of this world for shitty regimes to care about the environment even when they do some horrible shit otherwise.
As dumb and shameful as this is, there's still a pretty good chance we'll meet the requirements of this accord anyway. Trump can open all the coal mines he wants; the economics still vastly favor natural gas and renewables. We're just pissing away good will and our presence on the national stage, but that will be the next president's problem.
I voted straight down the Democrat column this morning. Felt good too.
Also voted to allow funding for cleaner environment and more funding to expand public libraries.
Hopefully those libraries will have lots of climate-related books.
Also voted to allow funding for cleaner environment and more funding to expand public libraries.
Hopefully those libraries will have lots of climate-related books.
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Complete and total embarrassment.
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just a few days ago...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/trump-climate-change-report/index.html
Trump administration report attributes climate change to 'human activities'
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just a few days ago...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/trump-climate-change-report/index.html
Trump administration report attributes climate change to 'human activities'
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I wonder whether Trump's attitude will change if anyone whispers in his ear, Grima Wormtongue style, "You're being invited last, and they're laughing at you. LAUGHING. If you'd cared about the environment, you'd be tremendous, but now they're LAUGHING at you."
He really seems to care a lot about being laughed at in a mocking way. That's always his go to criticism for why something is a bad idea, so you can tell it's his biggest social phobia.
He really seems to care a lot about being laughed at in a mocking way. That's always his go to criticism for why something is a bad idea, so you can tell it's his biggest social phobia.
It's shameful to the US really. Syria is a county entrenched in civil war yet they still sign the treaty. You can't defend this type of thing. But the US will try.
I'm in agreement with your general point, but the climate change issue is urgent and excluding a large portion of the world (Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, America Iran, Myanmar, NK...etc) would just hurt the planet and its inhabitants instead of helping them.
And let's be real, even if they excluded problematic regimes, America would get an exception anyway.
I thought the US wasn't invited at all? Or did they send out a sympathy invite?