GUEST COLUMNIST--He didn't have to do it. Pull out of the climate agreement. The Paris Accords were a public promise among 128 nations to work toward particular targets designed as much to give business, markets and governments some sense of how to plan for the future as it was to tackle the problem. There were no enforcement mechanisms simply the good will of all the countries that signed on to it. He's an infantile thinker and liar so he's either been manipulated or he's simply trying to wave his tiny hands around for his fans. It doesn't matter why.
Donald Trump has officially made the US, a gigantic polluter that was nonetheless leading efforts to change the trajectory of climate change, into a global environmental pariah.
You will remember, the media didn't ask even one climate change question during all those debates. Clinton had to try to sneak in her concerns where possible but nobody in the press paid any attention. They did find the time to repeatedly grill her about her emails, however.
By the way, all these Republicans parading around high-fiving do know better. (At least most of them do.) They're just cowards and fools.
And, one more by the way, Trump spoke gibberish today. Not that it matters.
(CityWatch guest columnist is Heather Parton who blogs under the pseudonym Digby at the blog site she created: Hullabaloo and also writes for Salon and ourfuture.org. Ken Draper will be back next CityWatch.)
-cw
