President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge, announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
The Paris Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy.
It was also bad for the countries that remain in the agreement. Here are four reasons Trump was right to withdraw.
1. The Paris Agreement was costly and ineffective.The Paris Agreement is highly costly and would do close to nil to address climate change. If carried out, the energy regulations
agreed to in Paris by the Obama administration would destroy hundreds
of thousands of jobs, harm American manufacturing, and destroy $2.5
trillion in gross domestic product by the year 2035...2. The agreement wasted taxpayer money. In climate negotiations leading up to the
Paris conference, participants called for a Green Climate Fund that
would collect $100 billion per year by 2020. The goal of this fund would be to
subsidize green energy and pay for other climate adaptation and
mitigation programs in poorer nations—and to get buy-in (literally) from
those poorer nations for the final Paris Agreement. The Obama administration ended up shipping $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to this fund without authorization from Congress. Some of the top recipients of these
government-funded climate programs have in the past been some of the
most corrupt, which means corrupt governments collect the funds, not those who actually need it...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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