Summary
Trump has announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, citing a focus on domestic energy production and rolling back Biden-era climate policies.
This move, which can be completed in one year, will align the U.S. with nations such as Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only UN-recognized countries outside the global pact.
Critics warn it undermines global climate efforts, ceding leadership to China, which has aggressively expanded green technologies.
Trump pledged to boost fossil fuels while continuing nuclear power investment.
The US is proudly outside of the global consensus on many issues and standards. Many, if not most Americans, believe that we are different, special, exceptional. We don’t join the rest of the world, the rest of the world joins us, whether they want to or not.
Not most, just the vocal few. At least where I am, Colorado, there is massive support for being a member of a global world. Things like clean energy are very important to us!
I think most Americans, Colorado notwithstanding, believe that the US is exceptional. Most Americans still believe the US is the “shining city upon a hill,” as Reagan put it. Maybe it’s not as many as it used to be, but I think it’s still most.
And for some reason the rest of the world tends to think Americans are arrogant assholes. I know lots of nice Americans but they’re just not as loud as the not-nice ones.