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For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence

Donald Trump’s latest attack on climate action takes place amid rapidly rising temperatures, rising sea levels, still-rising greenhouse gas emissions, burgeoning costs from extreme weather and the imminent danger that the world will trigger “tipping points” in the climate system that will lead to catastrophic and irreversible changes.

Trump’s decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the world’s leading body of climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will not alter any of those scientific realities.

Nor will it do much, at least in the short term, to alter the economic reality that the push to a low-carbon world is proving an engine of growth for scores of countries. Global investment in low-carbon energy now outstrips that in fossil fuels by two to one. Taking over Venezuela’s basket-case oil industry will make no perceptible difference.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The only thing it does outside their borders is burn through soft power.

Now given the motivation seems to be the increasingly boomeresque notion of oil = power, this is just another in a pretty catastrophically moronic combination of moves.

It must be so easy being one of the quislings in his ranks, you just need to tell him doing something abhorrent will lead him to power. He clearly hasn't got the mental faculties to: A. Identify a lie or B. Rebuke those who do lie. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't one of the worst examples of humanity to ever respire