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Within 150 days of President’s Trump’s reign as president of the United States, Trump has certainly been busy. Since his inauguration, a travel ban from his executive order was implemented, the public health system was worked, and threats to disband NATO became common knowledge. However, his most outrageous announcement in recent memory is arguably the decision to take the United States out of the Paris Agreement. If this comes to fruition, the retreat of one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter could deter any hope that the climate change issue will ever be solved.

 

The Paris agreement itself is a way to unify countries to stop a growing issue that is affecting every person on the planet. Its goal is to lower the growing rate of the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere down to 2 degrees celsius. They aim to do that by selecting individual goal for certain countries (bigger emitters must reduce more, smaller emitters will have to reduce less, etc) and supporting citizens of countries who are affected by geological epidemics (floods, earthquakes, etc). The agreement will be enacted by 2018 and checkpoints will be held every five years to see if every country has decreased their emissions by the Paris Agreement’s standards, and establishing additional incentives for countries to meet their goals.

 

Similar circumstances were made with the Kyoto Protocol, which was the first attempt by the UN that recognises and sets a plan in motion to stop climate change. With its big demands to lower the emissions of countries and low consequences for not taking the protocol, the U.S. did not ratify the accord and even Canada withdrew. After nearly a decade of the protocol in effect, minimal emission reduction was done due to the exit of many key countries. In order for accords to work such as the Paris Climate Agreement, all the major carbon emitters such as China, United States, Canada and Britain (among others) all have to be apart of global agreement to stop a global issue. Weather trump is aware of this is another problem onto itself.

 

Trump’s speech about the Paris agreement is filled with misleading facts and assumptions about the United States’s involvement in the accords. For example, his inability to recognize that the agreement has no financial repercussions for not keeping up with the goals and how much the country has actually donated to the accords.

 

Since his appalling announcement to withdraw from the accord and why, the Trump administration have avoided informing media outlets whether or not Trump actually believes that climate change is a hoax. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told the media at a briefing that he had not asked Trump his opinion. Multiple of his staff in interviews have simply told the press to ask Trump himself, but the president himself has not taken any question from the public in the last three weeks.

 

The Paris agreement itself is a way to unify countries to stop a growing issue that is affecting every person on the planet. The accord’s goal is to unite the world and stabilize global temperature. In fact, countries outside the United States contributes more to the world. China for instance, is closing more than 100 coal plants and implementing fields of solar panels. If the country with the largest GDP and the second largest emitter of carbon emissions rejects the chance to protect the future, it will severely damage the credibility of the country.