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At least 195 other countries are joining ( except Syria and Nicaragua ), even China is joining. US is now 1 of the three countries that doesn't join. What's at stake, at least an effort to change the future.

Missed opportunity for Trump / US, i think it also reflects the change that is happening between the US and it's current partners in a very fast pace.

PS. All the jobs that Trump is talking about in the mining industry, are all getting automated

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As stated in the article, Nicaragua did not sign the Paris agreement because they thought it was not enough. So it's a good opportunity to learn where this country is, because they owned it.

Why would people have not heard of Nicaragua?

Actually, i had to look it up. But it's in Central America. So i ( from Europe), haven't heard anything from it ever, sorry

I think you can't extrapolate your lack of education or knowledge of basic geography to everyone else. I'm also from Europe and of course I knew Nicaragua.

Read the agreement. The US would be giving billions to other countries yearly as part of this agreement. Of course every country on the receiving end is joining!

US will give billions if it continues to pollute. Why not stop ruining our planet instead ? Win win situation !

> US will give billions if it continues to pollute. Why not stop ruining our planet instead

Completely wrong. This is why all this outrage is nonsense. Nobody took the time to read the fine points.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/12/459502597/...

$100 Billion

"To help developing countries switch from fossil fuels to greener sources of energy and adapt to the effects of climate change, the developed world will provide $100 billion a year," NPR's Chris Joyce, who has been covering the climate conference, reports.

But that amount is identified as a "floor," not a ceiling.

"Developed countries won inclusion of language that would up the ante in subsequent years," Chris explains, "so that financial aid will keep ramping up over time."

GOOD. We should be proud to live in a country that can take leadership and promote this process.

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