President Donald Trump is not only making terrible decisions with women’s rights, he is also making terrifying ecological decisions—like removing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement on January 20, 2025.
The Paris Climate Agreement was adopted by multiple countries in December of 2015 with the goal to reduce greenhouse gases and promote more eco-friendly sources of energy.
The United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell said in a recent press conference in Brazil that the agreement will survive without the United States.
The countries who still participate in the agreement say they will work harder to reach goals and prepare for worse ecological problems including severe weather like droughts and torrential rainstorms.
“The call is for greater ambition, for these plans to be economy wide. We’ll be able to give better commentary as we synthesize that toward the end of the year,” Stiell said.
Stiell cited the working examples of China, Brazil and India who have made progress on reducing emissions, such as combating deforestation by planting trees and promoting biofuel or switching fuel sources to more environmentally friendly ones.
The United States was the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter in the world so maybe the Paris Agreement’s goals will be met every year now.
After all, Trump is renowned for making bad decisions, which now includes bucking up against former president Joe Biden’s ecologically friendly agendas. In both terms of his administration, Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement.
What this could spell for the future is that Trump will increase greenhouse gas emissions exponentially.
No one could really say what this crazy president has in mind for the future, just that he likes pushing big red missile buttons on a whim.
But this begs the question: did Americans not consider that they caused a dictator with little regard for the environment and rights when they voted him into office?
Did they not consider what this meant for the future? Did they even care?
Trump has little regard for people, particularly women and trans people, little consideration for the rest of the world’s powers, and he doesn’t think about what will be best for the future of our world.
At the end of the day we all live on this planet, regardless of where we are and which ruling country’s laws we follow. So, was Trump really the best choice to help the planet into the future? After all he’s done? After all he’s doing?
(The answer: no.)
But Trump isn’t the only one to blame.
Americans are equally at fault. We voted him into office.
Maybe in the next election we will think twice about who we vote for and who would be best to lead our country.
If the United States lasts long enough for another free election, that is.