McKibben op-ed on Trump climate decision in NYT
June 2, 2017
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben’s op-ed on President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement was published in the New York Times.
From the article:
READ FULL ARTICLEIt’s a stupid and reckless decision — our nation’s dumbest act since launching the war in Iraq. But it’s not stupid and reckless in the normal way. Instead, it amounts to a thorough repudiation of two of the civilizing forces on our planet: diplomacy and science. It undercuts our civilization’s chances of surviving global warming, but it also undercuts our civilization itself, since that civilization rests in large measure on those two forces.