re: Renewable energy becoming so cheap US will meet Paris commitments even if Trump withdraws

i think it's becoming more and more clear that the reason why Europe was so upset with the US pulling out was that we'd stop helping to pay the subsidies to the developing countries, which will lead them to violate the agreement. the real issue was the myth that the developing world was adopting these standards out of the goodness of their hearts, when it was really to get a subsidy from the developed world (and this whole system relies on those transfers)

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So the Paris accord was pointless.

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Wasn't pointless. The real point of it was to get the U.S. to pay big money to poor countries. That's what it was really about.

Trump is just about the only person I can think of who had the balls to say no. Any other candidate, Democrat or Republican, would have joined.

That's why I like Trump. I don't always agree with him, but I know he's not afraid of being politically incorrect and telling the rest of the world to screw if he doesn't think something is fair.