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Trump to announce U.S. will exit Paris climate deal

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    liberal tears > diplomacy and leadership

I don't know how many years of this I can take.

What do you mean?

I think he's referring to the polarization of America's parties, where there's now a sizable group on both sides who'd rather see the other side upset than their own side happy.

I don't think the extremists from either side will ever see the irony over fighting to keep liberty from one another.

Michio Kaku was right about human kind destroying itself. He just overestimated on the time it was take. It's not only the terrorist who don't want a type 1 civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg

I don't even think it's a choice. Trump and co don't really have a coherent vision, so each policy decision doesn't build on the next. There is no unified Trump doctrine only kneejerk spasms.

The problem is the structure of American govt and institutions themselves. Trump has no incentive to get good at the game of politics as it was played for the last 200 years.

Actions aren't justified, motivations aren't explained, and there is no attempt at persuasion. It's all my team, your team, zero sum foolishness.

Seems a poor choice for a guy who owns a bunch of property on a low-lying coastal island.

An opportunity for China to demonstrate some world leadership and take advantage of some diplomatic opportunities to push their international good-guy agenda; be interesting to see where they go with this.

This is in part a way for Trump to pursue his goal of reviving the American coal industry.

Coal is a 19th century technology. At its peak it was used for heating, steel-making, electricity, and transportation with trains and steam boats.

In the 20th century it got replaced by diesel for transportation, greatly reduced for steel-making with the continuous casting process, and gradually replaced in heating by natural gas and electricity. More recently it is getting replaced in electricity generation by natural gas and renewables.

You know, if you want your economy to be strong, you need to keep up with new technologies, instead of trying to hang on as long as possible to old, obsolete ones.

How, specifically, will exiting this deal help?

It won't.

So why do it? What's the justification?

How will staying in it help? Seems like none of the countries who have signed implemented anything. More like a feel good measure more than anything.

It will help avoid averting major crises.

Authoritarianism needs crises to advance.

So, that's how (and who) it will help.

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