Adieu Accord de Paris

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(06-02-2017, 03:27 PM)Au165 Wrote: The point is the money angle is completely blown out of proportion but because to average people it sounds like a lot of money it sways people. As I said 5 dollars a year to attempt to improve the planet is not asking much. Also note that, we are only contributing a 3rd of the total money gathered and that money is going to try and get less developed countries greener energy solutions to help reduce the global pollution issues which affects everyone. We have done more than a third of the damage, so it seems fair we carry a decent sized burden.

It's funny you point at giving money to Haiti and it's gone. We give money to government contractors to the tune of hundreds of billions and never see anything for it because we have a horribly inefficient sourcing system. Just look at the f 35 program, it has literally cost us billions.

$400m/yr is a lot regardless if you're an average person or not. Plus the plan was for that $400m/yr to double to $800m/yr by 2020.

You say only 1/3rd, as if one country paying for 1/3rd of a group of 195 countries isn't silly. Why should the US pay anything? I know what the money is "intended" for, but unless you're really naive, South Sudan or Uzbekistan isn't going to use that money to put solar panels on everyone's roof.

The US CAN carry a decent sized burden by doing their own part to reduce emissions. That and giving other people money, though, are quite different matters.


It's funny you apparently didn't read my post at all and just homed in on my Haiti example. I am for cutting ALL waste in the government. Be that government contractors, or the shitty F-35 program (which I have always wanted gone). Once again you keep pretending like just because we waste money elsewhere, we should keep wasting money in more places. Never do you consider that we should just not waste money in EITHER spot.