Republicans want to back out of the Paris Agreement. While the United States is held hostage to a political party
in the bag to carbon spewing industries, the rest of the world is trying to make a difference. As long as Republicans have any power in
Congress the U.S. will lose influence in the world.
India helped the world
make another small step on its path to avoid catastrophic global warming.
Yesterday, the nation ratified the Paris Agreement signed by nearly 200
countries in December 2015. As part of the deal, India committed itself that by
2030 it would generate 40 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuel
sources.
Last month, the United
States and China, the two biggest polluters in the world, set off an avalanche
of ratifications of the historic Paris Agreement — a text that says signatories
vow to reduce or cap greenhouse emissions under a ratchet system in hopes of
avoiding two degrees Celsius warming past average-Industrial age levels. Some
climatologists say the world is already locked in for 1.5 degrees C warming.
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