The U.S. is no longer acting like an insolent child peeing in a swimming pool.
On Nov. 4, 2020, the Trump administration quit the Paris Agreement, becoming the only nation to leave the world’s most important effort to curb Earth’s relentless warming. Even the hyper-isolated dictatorship of North Korea was still aboard.
But before he was elected, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden pledged to rejoin the treaty on “day one.” He did, signing an order in the Oval Office on Jan. 20. Crucially, later that same day the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, accepted Biden’s request to return (and thereby help stabilize the disrupted climate). Read more…
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