The Paris Climate Accord, President Trump announced on June
1, 2017, “is very unfair at the highest level to the United States.” This goes well
beyond the deal’s anticipated toll on the U.S. economy. The deal, the
president, argued is fundamentally unfair. Indeed, the agreement may reflect
more the old North-South differential in economic development than even the
climate. In this regard, the president characterized the U.S. assent to the
deal as a “self-inflicted wound” made out of weakness—perhaps even guilt
foisted by the developing world. “This
agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a
financial advantage over the United States,” the president said. More to the
point—the financial bottom-line, “The agreement is a massive redistribution of
United States wealth to other countries.”
The full essay is at "U.S. Pulls Out of the Paris Climate Accord."
