French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change (newsweek.com)

After Sunday's election in France, Macron's victory "is likely to be a boon for the French digital economy and its startup scene," writes a foreign policy think tank blog, "but the country's frosty relationship with U.S. tech companies is likely to remain over the next five years." Yet even before he was elected as France's new president, Emmanuel Macron was already warning the U.S. that withdrawing from the international Paris Climate change agreement could cost America its brightest innovators. Thelasko writes: French President elect Emmanuel Macron has a message to U.S. scientists and engineers working on climate change. "Please, come to France. You are welcome. It's your nation. We like innovation. We want innovative people. We want people working on climate change, energy renewables and new technologies. France is your nation."
Newsweek reports this week that without America's involvement, the Paris Climate agreement "will have no way of meeting its goals of reducing global net carbon emissions" -- but that Macron could persuade the U.S. to honor its agreement. ("It reportedly took just one phone call conversation between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the president for Trump to reconsider withdrawing entirely for NAFTA, another international agreement signed into law prior to his tenure in the Oval Office.") And in the meantime, Macron has also promised not to cut France's energy-research budget, and will even reinforce it "to accelerate our initiative."

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As the US

[Esteanil]

As the US continues falling into a post-intellectual, foreigner-fearing state, the brain drain will only continue.
Vast parts of the scientific progress the US "gave" the post WWII-world was built on immigrants, but now the tide is turning - the empire falling apart at the seams.

Re:As the US

[Esteanil]

Trump, and even the whole Republican party, is hardly the only source of anti-intellectualism in the US, it's been ongoing for quite a while.

You've got colleges and universities that can't handle debate, and appear to value the contributions of their sports teams far above any science produced.
Ideological interests have been shaping your school books for decades, and the problem's getting worse.
The right disbelieves global warming, the left disbelieves GMO and nuclear safety - two of the most important tools to actually solve some of the problems caused by said global warming.
Federal science funding has been stagnant / dropping in real value since the 80s.
Your corporates are raiding the most successful university labs - turning them from basic to applied science, and locking that science up to the point where they're blocked from even discussing in general terms what they're working on with their peers.

This is just off of the top of my head, I'm sure the slashdot community can come up with more examples.

And, of course, if Trump gets his budget through thousands of US scientists will be unable to get funding and be forced to look for employment elsewhere.

That the US is going to see significantly more brain drain in the years to come does not seem to me like a very controversial prediction.

Here's to hoping things change or that I'm just wrong.

Re:As the US

[Anonymous Coward]

Chicken shit. The terrorists have won...at least with your sorry ass.

Re:As the US

[GameboyRMH]

Mod parent Informative. This is how terrorism works.

Re:Innovate, but don't profit

[fabriciom]

Yes you pay more in taxes and you get more from society like affordable healthcare and education.