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    Trump looking at fast ways to quit global climate deal: source

    President-elect Donald Trump is seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from a global accord to combat climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying broad global backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump…

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    • "can you understand how meaningless everything is?" lol
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    • im not a big fan of broad climate goals, they are usually created heavily by special interests, and most these are regressive in they drive costs higher
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    • what scare me about trump is deals he wants to make. If he starts saying we need new deals. or his deals. he might be same as clinton but favor alt industry
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    • Special interest to create more bullshit taxes. I love how brainwashed people are to hate trump for this.
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    • I know I'm late to the party, but the goal of preventing an increase of >2ºC since pre-industrial times isn't about taxes, it's about preventing future massiveBuddhaHat
    • losses due to the effects of climate change, ie. reduced harvests, fish catch, rising sea levels wiping out low-lying areas (Bangladesh, Florida etc)BuddhaHat
    • Increased frequency of large-scale weather events (hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, floods etc)BuddhaHat
    • Solar projects in Abu Dhabi of all places have already reached a price per/kW that's at parity with fossils fuels, and the proposed ...BuddhaHat
    • distributed power grid across Asia would deliver massive amounts of renewable energy to one of the most densely populated part of the worldBuddhaHat
    • so I guess this decision of Trump's relates more to his nationalist, more isolationist stance, like his plan to extricate the US from NATO.BuddhaHat
    • As well as his strong ties with members of the fossil fuel industry. For me it's the fact that he's giving up on the economic boom that's coming in favour ofBuddhaHat
    • taking the leash off the fossil fuel hounds to produce massive amounts of dirty fuel, and poisoning the population at the same time (ie. shale gas leaks)BuddhaHat
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