U.S. President Donald Trump (Trump) said Sunday (Nov. 22) that his administration pulled the United States out of the global climate agreement, but Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants the United States back in, and that Biden’s ideas will not only fail to save the planet but will also destroy the U.S. economy.
Trump: Paris Climate Agreement Not Designed to Save Environment
Kawakami gave a video address at the White House on Sunday at the G-20 summit. He said the Paris Climate Agreement was “not designed to save the environment, but to strangle the American economy”.
“To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris Climate Agreement, an agreement that is very unfair to America,” Kawakami said.
President Trump said in 2017 that he would withdraw from the agreement, but would not formally begin the withdrawal process until three years after the agreement went into effect. The “Paris Climate Agreement” took effect on Nov. 4, 2016. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had announced on November 4, 2019, that the Trump Administration had formally notified the United Nations that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, thereby initiating the withdrawal process. Withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement takes one year, which means that on November 4, 2020, the U.S. officially withdraws from the agreement.
After the U.S. officially withdrew from the Paris agreement, Biden announced on Twitter that his administration was bringing the U.S. back into the fold.
The U.S. 2020 presidential election has been marred by numerous allegations of fraud, and Trump’s team has filed lawsuits in several swing states.On November 7, the U.S. mainstream media declared Biden the winner, sparking protests across the country. The Epoch Times will not declare a winner until all legal challenges regarding the U.S. election are resolved.
Paris Agreement Will Strangle U.S. Economy Trump: U.S. Reduces Carbon More Than Any Other Country
According to the Heritage Foundation, the United States will lose an average of $20,000 per household and $2.5 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035 as a result of joining the Paris Agreement.
Under the terms of the Paris Agreement, developed countries are required to provide approximately $100 billion a year in aid funds to developing countries until 2025 to help them develop and improve their energy mix and industrialization technologies. Of the more than 100 signatories, the U.S. alone is responsible for 75 percent of the annual cost, or about $75 billion. Trump believes this is unfair and places a heavy economic burden on the United States.
Another reason the Trump administration believes the Paris agreement is unfair is that the differential emission reduction requirements for each country will cause the United States to lose competitiveness.
Kawakami cites the example that under the agreement, China can increase their carbon emissions for 13 more years and they are not bound to reduce emissions for those 13 years, while the United States is not. The Paris agreement is unfair, especially to the United States.
In addition to withdrawing from the Paris treaty, Trump has sought to reverse many of former President Obama’s climate action policies. This includes repealing Obama’s landmark Clean Power Plan (CPP) in 2019, which aimed to reduce U.S. power sector carbon emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. President Trump has replaced it with “affordable clean energy” rules.
Andrew Wheeler, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Obama’s Clean Power Plan would require low- and middle-income Americans to bear the costs of the previous administration’s climate plan.
“Some analyses predict double-digit increases in electricity prices in 40 states under the Clean Power Plan,” Wheeler said.
“Anthony Watts, a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute, said in a 2019 interview with the English-language Epoch Times that the Paris climate agreement is ineffective at significantly reducing climate change, and that even if it does make some progress, it will cause significant damage to the U.S. economy.
According to Watts, the Paris agreement will cost the U.S. about 2.7 million jobs by 2025 as a result of shrinking some industries. By 2030, U.S. steel production would be reduced by 38 percent, natural gas production by 31 percent, and coal production by 86 percent.
He added that projections show that U.S. industry will lose $3 trillion worth of GDP and 6.5 million jobs by 2040.
Watts added that available data shows that overall U.S. and EU carbon dioxide emissions remained the same or declined between 1970 and 2018, due in part to a switch to natural gas and renewable energy sources.
In his G-20 speech on Sunday, President Trump said the U.S. has reduced its carbon emissions more than any other country since withdrawing from the Paris agreement.
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