The rest of the world must impose sanctions against the US

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Donald Trump is pretending anthropogenic global warming isn't real at all, and plans to trash the Paris Accord and other agreements, causing the country most responsible for AGW to be back on a course to warming the planet up. The rest of the world cannot stand for this and must retaliate: If the US will not make its economy green, then the US economy must collapse for the world's sake.

Nonsense.

What we should all remember about Global Warming is that it is good up to some point that we will probably never reach. Sure, there will be some downsides, but overall, it is quite beneficial.

This is especially true in growing food. A warm planet is a productive planet. Our only hope for feeding our growing population is warming.

The disaster would be the inevitable Global Cooling that is getting closer. If Global Warming can postpone that for a while, then more power to it. Remember that we are currently in an ice age and have been in it for about 2.6 million years. This is a warm period between glaciations in the ice age. When the next glaciation begins, it is going to get cool and death by starvation will become common as will massive wars for the dwindling food supplies.

Why should we punish 320,000,000 or so people for the misguided policies of their government?

I find the logic screwy, frankly.

If the Brits did not attack or do any anything to America for the IRA terrorism which was mostly funded by Americans and included an attack that killed Lord Mountbatton and a failed attack that nearly killed Thatcher why would you think the world would get together to punish America now?

I don't see how we're going to 'make this country great' when trumps plans as far as environmental concerns is to pretty much ignore it and refuse to move towards more renewable energy and reduce negative human impact to the environment.

If we're such a great western nation shouldn't we be a leader in helping clean up the planet, so this generation and future ones can thrive? Meh guess that's not on trump or the republicans to do list.


I don't know about anyone else but I'd prefer not to have to breath thick smog like that which occurs in china due to increasing industrialization without much regulation or proper controls on pollutants here in the U.S.

I would agree with you if we were talking strictly in hypotheticals about what we should do if Latveria refused to abide by global treaties aimed at preventing the destruction of the planet.

However, the US is too big to fail. If it goes into recession, so does most of the world. There's an argument that would be good for the planet, but it would be bad for the people living on it, and it would probably harm renewable energy projects.

And with that thin-skinned nutcase in the White House, the rest of the world will be treading even more carefully to avoid earn his wrath.

I think the better approach is to convince Trump to support renewable energy (and nuclear). Emphasise that it is a fantastic opportunity for entrepreneurship. America is a world leader in energy technology and could stand to make a lot of money exporting these technologies globally. It will increase energy independence and therefore limit the global influence of the Saudis and Iranians (and any other groups that Trump may dislike - Venezuelan communists?). America can't afford to get left behind by China.

The environmentalist angle doesn't seem to work with him, so play up the business/patriotic angle and maybe sneak in the science and environmentalism on the side.

The Walrus,

I would say the rest of the world needs to stop sucking America's teat. If America is too big to fail, help movements like Calexit split it up.

But I will say this, don't expect Trump to negotiate in good faith. Trump has a history of not keeping up his end of the bargain, like when his casino ordered a bunch of pianos and then stiffed the seller, who never received payment for the pianos they delivered.

You will have to bring out the stick as well as the carrot.

Punish the US?
I don't think so.
We're the ones that mete out the punishment, it's one of the perks of being a superpower.

National soveirgnty matters, 'the rest of the world' has no jurisdiction over the US just as we shouldn't over them. We would be a lot better off if we started minding our own business instead of involving ourselves with everybody else. Putting TROTW on pedestal is ignorant, they're no better and have no moral high ground to stand on.