Originally Posted by
Bluesideup1
You like most didn't actually read the paris accord. I like that you are asking rather than railing against our getting out of it.
The transfer from industrial countries was to a lot of third world countries because we are the ones that pollute the most. Therefore that means we must make recompense to these other countries by helping them develop cleaner energies, conservation or farming. This was going to cost the taxpayer TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars to help with water conservation in places like Morocco or pay for farmers to tackle extreme weather in Sri Lanka.
Those were actual earmarks for the paris accord. We are 20 TRILLION in debt with many domestic problems that are in trouble and under funded yet we are going to send money to countries that don't even like us and this is a good deal for the American taxpayers?
Well done analysis. We have become so addicted to globalization and foreign interdependency as a western society (see the EU and epic failures of it,) that when a country *gasp* looks out for its own interests, you know, how a government's first responsibility is (shocker) to its own people, the new age generation criticizes it as arrogant/elitist/nationalistic/bad/etc. Plus It was Trump's idea so it must be bad.
There is nothing wrong with forging alliances and diplomacy, it is necessary, but at the end of the day, governments (any government) should put the interest of its own citizens above others. This is not to say "fxxx" the rest of the world, but history and every sane political scientist has proven that the nation state is the ultimate and most effective form of governance in the international arena.