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Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:59pm
John Atcheson
No matter how bad you think Trump’s decision to drop out of the Paris Agreement was, the reality is worse. It is, in fact, by far the worst thing from the very broad list of bad things he’s doing.
This article outlines why we have less time to act to avoid catastrophic climate change than we’ve been led to believe, and it outlines a way forward.
We Can Make Trump Irrelevant
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:34pm
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Paris is also known as the City of Light. And with his decision yesterday to exit the Paris climate accord, Donald Trump’s diplomatic dereliction has put a shimmering spotlight on how to address the climate emergency: start at the local level.
While the 2015 signing of the deal was a cause for optimism, for many of us it was not a cause for celebration. When it was first introduced, we witnessed many activists taking to the streets in protest because the accord did not go far enough.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:29pm
John Light
On Thursday last week, President Donald Trump delivered on years of promises to his supporters and spat in the face of the world by pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. After the announcement, many of our allies publicly denounced the US — but, privately, reacted with relief that the US had cleared the field for countries who take climate change seriously to ramp up their efforts.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 11:20pm
Andrew Mitrovica
Two speeches. Delivered 14 years apart by one British politician, Jeremy Corbyn. Each connected by one word: truth. The shame: the world failed to heed the wisdom of the first speech, and is unlikely to heed the wisdom of the second speech.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 10:45pm
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Much has been written over the last several days about the political and economic repercussions of Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out from the Paris Climate Agreement. It’s been pointed out that the decision will diminish our standing in the world and cast us in the role of a rogue state, a pariah among nations. Our economy will languish, overtaken by other countries that make the leap to full reliance on clean energy. The mantle of global leadership will pass to Europe and China, and we’ll find ourselves increasingly isolated on the international stage.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 9:43pm
Jon Queally, staff writer
Trump called "Opportunist-in-Chief" for using latest violence in the UK to justify travel ban from Muslim countries
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 4:09am
Ann Marie Utratel, Stacco Troncoso
Can the Commons and peer-to-peer (P2P) practices really offer viable solutions for our present and future social, political and ecological crises? Spain’s municipal successes remind us who the victor was in the battle between David and Goliath.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 2:20am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Just days after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement and with the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey scheduled for next week, U.S. citizens gathered for protests in cities nationwide on Saturday to denounce the president's penchant for lying, obscuring facts, and promoting alternative realities.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 1:06am
Christopher Brauchli
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
—Charles de Secondat, De l’Espirit des Louis (1748)
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 12:58am
Kristine Mattis
At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) marked the first international treaty to address the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by nation states to attempt to avert the impending disaster of global climate change. By December 1997, the UNFCC was expanded into the Kyoto Protocol which set legally binding emissions reductions targets; however the protocol was not implemented until 2005. In the meantime, the United States signed on to the protocol but never ratified it in Congress.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 12:24am
Jamie Henn
After Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, many of us are looking for a way to fight back. One of the simplest and most powerful things we can do right now is to divest from fossil fuels.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 12:20am
John Nichols
Donald Trump’s campaign boast that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters” may still hold true for the dead-enders who cling to the fantasy that he’s a competent commander in chief. But the Trump team doesn’t set the standard for presidential accountability. That was done back in 1787, when the initiators of the American experiment delineated the impeachment power that is suddenly all the rage.
Sunday, 4 June 2017 - 12:11am
Eamon Ryan
It was no surprise when Donald Trump walked out into the Rose Garden to announce to the waiting world he was about to drop out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
We knew what was coming. We realised some months ago that our worst environmental nightmare had arrived. So why then did the whole event leave me feeling so physically sick and scared to my core?