Hawaii Rebels Against Trump On Paris Climate Accord

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09 June, 2017

This week, the wayfinders will return to a Hawaii that on Tuesday took a defiant stand, becoming the first state to legally implement portions of the landmark Paris climate agreement that President Trump chose to abandon. Many celebrities, politicians and citizens of the world have voiced their concerns on the abrupt decision.

And now, around 770k people are employed in the United States renewable sector, far greater than the 187k employed in the domestic oil and gas extraction sector. Yet, the current administration has taken steps backwards on climate policy. The United States has an obligation to combat this global threat to public health and safety here at home, and overseas.

Former New York Mayor and U.N. Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael Bloomberg pledged $15 million to make up for the US contribution to the climate agreement. It's important that we protect it, if you believe in climate change or not.

Experts have warned that climate change could lead to droughts or flooding, which could aggravate the country's chronic food shortages.

Almost two years ago, University of Minnesota faculty and staff travelled to Paris to watch world leaders broker the Paris Climate Agreement.

Warning that "global warming is one of the gravest challenges humankind is facing today", the secretive Communist state, said the USA president's decision comes "at the cost of the entire planet".

Conversely, in states that favored Trump in the 2016 election, even clean energy is big business.

"And the pain of these changes is largely born by the poorest, here in our own country and globally". "Now, mayors from every corner of our nation are joining the call to action, and uniting to carry the fight against climate change forward in our cities". "That includes waves of climate refugees and resource wars".

In a poll from ABC News on June 5, 59 percent of Americans opposed the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, while 28 percent were in support of it.

"We are literally all in this together because we're all on the same planet and what one country does to have an impact on the environment has an impact on the entire world", Hodges said.

Regarding Trump's implications that India signed the Paris Climate Agreement for monetary benefits, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj issued a public denial.

Wait. We are going to be lectured by these nations about saving the planet?

Along with setting climate change as a priority for the state, the bill creates a state commission dedicated to studying climate change and putting out detailed plans for responding both to sea-level rise and climate change as a whole, with the stipulation that the plans align with the Paris agreement. "We will need to rely on leadership at the state, city, and municipal level as we await leadership at the national level."States and cities hold enormous economic clout".

"P.S. Coal is not coming back".


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