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Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Mayors of more than 7,400 cities across the world have vowed that Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord will spur greater local efforts to combat climate change. At the first meeting of a "global covenant of mayors," city leaders from across the US, Europe and elsewhere pledged to work together to keep to the commitments made by Barack Obama two years ago. Cities will devise a standard measurement of emission reductions to help them monitor their progress. They will also share ideas for delivering carbon-free transport and housing. Kassim Reed, the mayor of Atlanta, told reporters he had travelled to Europe to "send a signal" that US states and cities would execute the policies Obama committed to, whether the current White House occupants agreed or not. Reed, whose administration has promised that the city of Atlanta will use 100% renewable energy by 2035, said 75% of the US population and GDP lay in urban areas, where local leaders were committed to fighting climate change. "We have the ability to still achieve between 35% and 45% CO2 emission reductions without the involvement of the national government and it is why I chose to be here at this time to send a signal to 7,400 cities around the world that now should be a time of optimism, passion and action," he said.
Best recognize. And the rest of you just sit your civil war memorial protecting oxycontin using bring back our coal jobs Toby Keith listening asses down.
We got this.
Well, let's just see where your liberal policies have gotten us, shall we?
I was just now reading an article on immigration, which lists 6 quick facts(*) from the immigration report Trump asked for.
This was information largely hidden by the Obama administration, and Trump made it public.
From that report:
Note that this information was basically hidden by Obama: no one knew what was happening, and no one knows how long it was went on (and we probably never will).
To put this simply: When your two kids turn 18 and are trying to get jobs, there is also one immigrant competing for those same jobs.
And it's white collar jobs as well as low-level ones.
So tell me - how will that GDP work out for you, when you're out of a job?
(*) There will be the inevitable idiot claiming that Breitbart isn't a credible source. You may note that the idiot doesn't discredit the story, or the information from the story, or (heavens!) the *source* of the information on which the story is based. Take that as you may.
I wonder if these cities ALSO plan to funnel billions of dollars to third world slush funds, which was the real goal of the Paris accords.
You do realize the the penalties were always voluntary and that each country sets it's own goals, right? There was never going to be any money going anywhere, you rat-swindler.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
The Democrats are good at losing, and being sore losers at the same time. Note I have no issues with Pairs accord, just that Obama, the "constitutional scholar" threw out the constitution. Obama was arrogant ever since he began his presidency, starting in 2009 with "elections have consequences", he even admits it as his biggest mistake. Even though he admitted to his arrogance 2015, for good measure he said FU to Republicans in April 2016 with Paris and said he didn't need the Senates approval. The genius couldn't figure out for the life of him, after 8 years why Republicans didn't want to work with him. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Screw'em...they're not our problem.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Nope.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Right, we send $ to China, India etc, for the pollution we make, which is substantially less than China, India etc makes. Great IDEA!!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I work for a school district, and I couldn't agree with you more. We spend, literally Millions of dollars on stuff that has no benefit to students being educated. Test scores continue to stagnate and educating kids is not even the goal anymore. We literally have a two month window for "testing" in the spring, where the students are herded onto computer labs and tested.
I can assure you, that most of what passes for "Education" are goals adults have in reporting to adults about how well other adults are doing with kids. Mind you, I'm not talking about Classroom Teachers, I'm talking about just about everyone else. The top down, FED, State, and local leadership can't focus on educating Johnny, they have feathers to line caps with. And for all the money we toss at "education", nobody actually measures actual results vs dollars spent.
Here's what I know about kids performances in school, very little is affected by dollars spent. A kid's performance in school is more impacted by parents and home life than it is by all the educational bits being pushed by those at high levels. But we can't actually address parenting and homelife because that would be "Judgmental". In fact, money would be better spent wrangling the shits for parents than their kids.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
All that centralized shit worked great in the Soviet Union, Mao's China, Venezuela, etc, didn't it?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.