Ray From Cleveland
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The Paris Agreement did not 'do' anything and certainly did not give other nations the means to control our industry. The accord goals for each nation were set by the nations themselves and included absolutely zero enforcement measures - the goals that we set for ourselves could also be utterly ignored. That really was the main reason pulling out of it was rather silly - it is not as though there was anything to gain by not being engaged.Why is that a better question? When you are teaching your kid manners is it a better question for him to ask how you're going to teach the neighbors kids manners?
You start by taking care of your own responsibilities. Moving from there... You can limit the business you do with other countries based on environmental and humanitarian standards. You can also develop technology that is cleaner and cheaper for other countries to adopt. Obama had a climate accord where the worlds largest countries were communicating and setting goals. Trump shit on it. Way to go Mr douchbag president.
All the Paris accord did was give other countries the means to control our industry. You want that?
How do you limit the business our companies do with another country? We can't do that now. We have no control over what other countries do, only our own. It's fruitless for us to dump trillions of dollars to cleanup our country when other countries will continue doing business as usual.
The only thing the Paris Agreement really accomplished was starting a dialogue. It is hard to argue that a dialog is a bad thing even if it is not being used appropriately.
Nobody needs an agreement to start a dialog. If the agreement was not binding, then what was the point of having one in the first place? The Democrats would use it as an excuse to shove this green nonsense up our ass and blame it on the Paris Accord. And since it was supposedly not binding, then nobody should complain that Trump got rid of it.