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 Saturday, June 03, 2017

Crimes against the environment- Donald Trump on trial

Donald Trump has lost even more credibility and American stature among world leaders. He descends into this situation as he continues to put political ego above the moral obligatioin he has to lead improvements in the human condition. Obviously, Donald Trump doesn't understand how his children, and grandchildren will join in being embarrassed by his failed attempt to boost his ego at the expense of the earth's fragile environment.

In the blog "Moyers and Company", the decision to pull America out of the international Paris Climate Accord is considered to be a "crime against humanity". Environment: (a blog originally published in The Nation- by Mark Hertsgaard )

Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity

"This is murder — even if Trump’s willful ignorance of climate science prevents him from seeing it as such." by Mark Hertsgaard
Posted June 2, 2017

Donald Trump confirmed his status as climate denier in chief Thursday, guaranteeing his place in history as an enemy of both science and humanity.

Solar, wind, batteries and other technologies are growing tremendously fast, rewarding investors and employing far more people than the heat-trapping fuels of the past. Three million Americans now work in the clean-energy sector, more than the oil, gas and coal industries combined.

Of course, the Paris Accord is far from perfect: Its emissions reductions are voluntary and do not go far enough, at least not yet. Nevertheless, the accord commits the world’s governments to leave behind oil, gas and coal by midcentury — a historic shift. It commits them to limit global temperature rise to the 2 degrees Celsius that scientists say is the maximum compatible with civilization as we know it, and to aim for the 1.5 Celsius limit that poor and island nations rightfully regard as essential to their survival. Thus the accord provides citizens, activists and the rest of civil society worldwide with a strong mandate they can use to hold governments and corporations to account.

So much for America First

Reading (IMO, trying to read, because it was obviously a difficult task for him especially in front of all those made for TV people), from a prepared text, he refrained from repeating his favorite falsehood about climate change — that it is “a hoax” invented by the Chinese to undermine the US economy.

Perhaps his aides have learned this much: Although fooled for decades by the disinformation campaigns funded by such polluters as ExxonMobil and voiced by Republicans in Congress, a majority of Americans now realize that climate change is real, caused by humans and dangerous. Instead, Trump portrayed his withdrawal from the Paris Accord as a matter of economic fairness and patriotism, of standing up for American workers, businesses and taxpayers who, he said, are being taken advantage of and, worst of all, laughed at by foreigners who foisted a “very unfair” deal on the hapless negotiators of the Obama administration.

It will mean that the extinction crisis that has already claimed countless plant, and animal species will intensify, furthering impoverishing the planet both ecologically and spiritually.

As the preponderance of evidence grows, and climate change is undeniable, it is Donald Trump and his ego that will be convicted of the crime against Mother Earth. In fact, at this point, regardless of what other nations decide to do about climate change, the guilty verdict will always (and I mean "Always!") be declared against Donald Trump, for perpetrating environmental devastation.)

Labels: Bill Moyers, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Mark Hertsgaard, Paris Climate Accord, The Nation

posted by Juliana L'Heureux | 7:33 AM