(June 2, 2017 at 10:33 am)alpha male Wrote: One negative noted about withdrawal from Paris is that US won't have a voice in future meetings.
Advisors withdraw from Trump, so they won't have a voice in future meetings.
Advisors who were proponents of climate change were already being ignored. Why stay if your voice is already silenced before you even speak?
It is disappointing that he quit, but the chances of changing Trumps mind on this topic, when he thinks it's a hoax and all the people he is closest to agree, is nil. Trump isn't one to admit he's made a mistake. Covfefe anyone? It's a secret word he meant to type, not a mistake.
The US in the Paris Accords, otoh, would have been a large voice in the room.
These situations are not the same.
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
