Donald Trump promised to remove the US from the Paris Agreement (an international campaign to slow and prevent further climate change) in his campaign and will make his final decision this week. Some of Trump's administration, notably Ivanka Trump is working to get the US to continue participating in the agreement. The US leaving would not only contribute to damaging the environment, it would be a bad diplomatic decision. Trump also plans to defund many of the programs that the Obama Environmental Protection Agency created that help better our environment. Advocates for environmental protection continue to encourage Trump to continue the EPA and Paris Agreement .
This article was written by Coral Davenport from the New York Times in order to inform the public of major decisions being made in the government. The idea that global warming is fake or in the far away future is completely unrealistic. Climate Change is occurring now and will only continue to get worse. It is the responsibility of the government to regulate environmental conservation. If the Trump Administration defunds the EPA and continues to ignore the serious problem will only get worse. The idea of government environmental conservation began during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. Many at that time were skeptical of the right for the government to be involved in conservation but activists such as John Muir were successful in getting the government to begin conserving the environment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/climate-change-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Ah this is so scary. Climate change is such an important cause and the man running our country doesn't even believe it exists.
ReplyDeleteThis is really bad! I hope that Congress is able to keep us in the agreement.
ReplyDeleteClimate change is a big issue that we really need to start paying attention to, including Donald Trump.
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