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mysteryowl

(7,373 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:13 AM Dec 2018

Trump administration is actively sabotaging the Paris Climate Agreement

Trump has sent Wells Griffith, his top "energy advisor" to the UN Climate Summit in order to actively sabotage the Paris Climate Agreement. He is giving talks promoting "clean coal" (there is no such thing!). He is there collaborating with countries to water down the agreement and change it.

Wells Griffith, was appointed Trump's top energy advisor (not Senate approved, as though that would matter anyway). Griffith's previous work included a deal to export 700,000 tonnes of coal from Pennsylvania’s Xcoal Energy & Resources LLC to Ukraine.
He is part of Trump's shadow cabinet promoting fossil fuels.

Democracy Now is probably one of the only journalists reporting on the sabotage work by the Trump administration.
The WH pulling out of the Paris agreement did not mean they are not active, they are, but to actively sabotage it.



Full reporting with interviews
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/12/trumps_energy_adviser_runs_away_when


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Trump administration is actively sabotaging the Paris Climate Agreement (Original Post) mysteryowl Dec 2018 OP
Saboteurs Ciaphas Cain Dec 2018 #1
It is a constant sabotage. mysteryowl Dec 2018 #2

Ciaphas Cain

(124 posts)
1. Saboteurs
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:29 AM
Dec 2018

I sort of miss the days when you actually had to argue a point with the other side. Literally everything Individual 1 does is illegal, immoral or just illogical. There is no possible way to defend sabotage of a climate conference.

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