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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
"Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and Ivanka’s husband, agreed with the president that the Paris agreement was a bad deal. He felt that the carbon emissions standards were too high and that a U.N. fund that helps developing countries counter climate change was costing the United States too much. But he, too, felt Trump should not withdraw but simply renegotiate better terms."
WTF! It is a
non-binding agreement! It served as nothing more than a sign of worldwide solidarity regarding our environment and recognition of the negative impacts global warming has on all of us. We had to put out some kind of plan but there were no penalties if we didn't meet our goals. We could have written down our plan on the back of a dirty napkin and it wouldn't matter.
"“He’s stayed where he’s always been, and not for a lack of trying by those who have an opposite opinion,” said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president. “He started with a conclusion, and the evidence brought him to the same conclusion.”"
He was never going to change his mind. Can't teach an old dog new tricks.
He saw numbers and went "Oh, those are big." and never questioned the sources or reliability of those statistics.