Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/trump-executive-order-paris-climate-agreement?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct

by guardian

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  1. Donald Trump’s new administration confirmed on Monday on his first day in office that he will repeat his first-term move and pull the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution out of the 2015 Paris agreement, the global treaty seeking to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

    The confirmation was in a White House document entitled President Trump’s America First Priorities, in a package of measures under the headline “Make America affordable and energy dominant again”.

    When enacted, the US will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries outside the global agreement, which Joe Biden had rejoined in 2021 after Trump confirmed he would exit it in his first term in 2017.

    Trump has also pledged to reverse Biden’s efforts to grow the US’s clean energy sector, which Trump describes as “the green new scam”, promising in his inauguration address to “drill baby drill” and remove all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry.

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  2. No surprise there. I would suggest to everybody to learn about stock and investing etc cause i’m sure the rich will, again, get richer of the back of the working person. So learn to get a piece.

  3. Trump is mashing on the gas on our slide towards oblivion. A true accelerationist.

  4. I mean he can attempt to stop renewables all he wants but they are becoming more and more profitable. We already are the #1 producer of oil in the world so drilling more oil doesn’t make much sense. Middle Eastern counties are already trying to move towards renewables since they see that’s where the world is headed. The rich will go towards what’s profitable and drilling is not the end all energy producer anymore.

    The Paris agreement is kinda a joke since absolutely no real progress has been done to limit the warming to 1.5 degrees. If anything he should have stayed in it and forced all the counties to step up but Russia probably told him to get out since they benefit when the world still uses more oil.

  5. You get what you pay for. Guess who has the most funds to pay for things? it is a mystery for sure….now hopefully the environmentalist moment will do some protesting, in museums or block a road or two, inconveniencing everyone but the ones causing the problems.. I see good things in the next 4 years for the environmental movement..good things

  6. To be fair I don’t think the agreement was doing all that much. It was like an alcoholic saying “I’m not gonna drink anymore” and then every holiday saying “gonna make this exception because it’s a holiday.”

    Trump is just saying “fuck it, I’m gonna drink.”

  8. Watching Trumps speech at the inauguration,  I honestly think that the Paris agreement is the least of the worlds problems? Renewables will continue to grow,  regardless.

    What Trump will actually do is anyones guess. But what HE’S SAYING, should send shivers down the non American global populations combined backs. 

    I watched an old video once, that was eerily similar. It’s date, 1938.

  10. …and egg prices quickly plummeted after the withdrawal/s

  12. who cares? we as we the entire world aren’t doing anything to slow down climate change anyways…

  13. The withdrawal process takes five years. He probably won’t last four

  14. Remember when Musk left the first Trump administration’s advisory board because he pulled out of the Paris agreement? Simpler times…

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