But the market system, with its need for constant growth and its inability to see the natural world as anything other than an exploitable resource, is in direct and inherent antagonism to the preservation of nature. For this reason, all of their solutions must fall within the bounds of the market system. Why is it so difficult for governments and their representatives to deal with this issue? The answer is simple: while the ruling class can imagine an end to the world, neither they nor many ecologists can imagine an end to capitalism. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change are becoming a daily reality for ordinary people around the globe, in the form of a seemingly unending round of extreme weather events that range from record snow to total drought, cyclones to nor’easters, catastrophic flooding to frozen canals. Instead, Climate Action Tracker predicts “a jump of 3.2 degrees before the end of the century”-with or without US cooperation. The (voluntary and unenforceable) pledges made by the accord’s signatories “cover no more than a third of the emission reductions needed” to keep global temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius. Now, with that being said, if somebody said go back into the Paris accord, it would have to be a completely different deal because we had a horrible deal.” Trump also stated his (factually incorrect) opinion that polar ice caps are at “record levels.” 1Īs if having an ignoramus for a president were not enough, the Paris accord, which currently has two hundred signatories and was heralded as “a victory for all of the planet” when it was signed in 2015, is foundering. I believe in just having good cleanliness in all.
At the end of January 2018, the rollercoaster ride that is the Trump presidency took another unexpected turn: the leader of the free world claimed that the United States could reenter the 2015 Paris climate agreement-if the US were given a “completely different deal.” As Trump told ITV host Piers Morgan, “I believe in clean air.