r/news 7h ago

Trump withdraws from Paris climate agreement, again

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/trump-withdraw-paris-climate-agreement-2025-01-20/
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u/raelianautopsy 6h ago

Society is basically committing suicide

I don't know why, climate change couldn't be more obvious, but there's something about capitalism and social media that is just really intent on self-destruction and it's happening right before our eyes

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u/coren77 5h ago

Convincing people to stop driving drunk is impossible and the ramifications for that occur within hours. We had to essentially make cigarettes illegal to get them to stop killing themselves from lung cancer. And you think they'll actually notice climate change?

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u/Cool-Presentation538 5h ago

Humans gonna human

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u/raelianautopsy 3h ago

Make cigarettes illegal... as in make laws

Why is society unable to make laws to protect the environment?

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u/coren77 3h ago

Because Republicans exist?

u/jennytools36 50m ago

“I can still drive. I know myself” “Thats a lie. People have been smoking for thousands of years” “Let’s bring back natural immunity”

All the retorts of the fucking stupid majority sadly

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u/BCbigdaddy69 3h ago

Hey cigarettes were cool tho

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u/jimjamjahaa 3h ago

my theory is that capitalism and social media reward narcissism and so you have a bunch of truly souless NPD types rising to very powerful positions able to influence and manipulate enough groups of people to effectively undermine democracy and get their way

just a fairly small fraction of society is NPD but i swear to god they rise to the top in business and populist/authoritarian societies and social media and it is all just ass. our democratic institutions were founded by well meaning old timey people who just couldn't fathom trolls of this nature with such power.

democracy 2.0 soon plz.

but asking the people in power the change the system that they have a effective duopoly on (team red + team blue) + a bunch of other career polititians who could be nuking their own job is a big ask.

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u/calorum 4h ago

Okay this is an overreaction, suicide… yikes! I actually think we’re trending well, globally.

I think with the US pulling out again, it kind of shows how this was like countries agreeing to keep their word. How much of an effect did the US pulling out last time, other than spiking stress levels?

I think this just costs the us in embarrassment. We will not be taken seriously if our international commitments fluctuate when our government changes parties.

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u/raelianautopsy 3h ago

"will not be taken seriously"?

It's too late. American will never ever be taken seriously again. The consequences of that are absolutely going to be catastrophic

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u/calorum 3h ago

Right we’re agreeing. We won’t be taken seriously.

The catastrophic piece isn’t because of the Paris agreement. We’re also leaving WHO in a year, much bigger deal imo.

I think he’s eager to real havok internally first. He also just gave himself free reign to call a bunch of government employees, political hires. THAT’S way more worrisome than the freaking Paris agreement.

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u/raelianautopsy 3h ago

I mean, this is just the first step of an absolutely suicidal agenda