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America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The US remains well behind pace to meet its commitments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions under the landmark Paris climate agreement. Under current policies, the nation will reduce climate pollution between 12 and 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2025, according to a Rhodium Group analysis published today. That's well below the 26 to 28 percent target agreed to under the Paris accords. The report estimates that total emissions between 2020 and 2030 could be 196 million metric tons lower than Rhodium projected last year. That's due to an increase in the number of planned coal plant closures, as well as the falling costs of natural gas, renewables, and electric vehicles. Slower economic growth forecasts were also a factor.
The newly planned recession will curb so much emissions that you wouldn't even believe it.
Believe me, the number of people staying home from work will be big, really huge.
We won't even need a wall, it will be so bad that the Mexicans won't even want to come here.
I think he confused the Paris Climate Agreement with Stormy Daniels.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Trump and his Dominionist buddies/appointees don't give a flying fuck about the environment; wrecking the Earth faster means Zombie Jesus returns that much sooner so far as these nutjob religious extremists are concerned. In the meantime they want to hoard as much profit as they possibly can and wasting money on trying to combat human-caused global warming is just a non-starter to them. Besides which these rich bastards can afford to live in nice climate-controlled homes with purified air and water while they wait for the Rapture to come take them back to Heaven, why should they give a fuck about what the plebian sinner average citizens have to live like? The rest of us are all going to Hell so far as they're concerned anyway.
Don't you Trump supporters see it? Trump does not give a fuck about YOU any more than he gives a fuck about anyone else. He cares about his own ass first, then maybe his family, then maybe the sycophants he surrounds himself with (if they kissed his ass enough). The rest of us? We're just meat for the grinder to him and his cronies.
It cost him $130,000 to hit a stretched-out porn star who has done interracial scenes, which is surprising, since I always thought Trump hates following a black guy.
You are welcome on my lawn.