Paris climate change agreement

The United States is often criticized for its citizens’ “love affair with the automobile.” It was roundly criticized when its president withdrew the US from the highly vaunted Paris Climate Accords.
Europeans are often perceived to look on the actions of Americans complaining over the high price of gasoline as somehow immoral. However, Americans do not usually go destroying things and setting fires in the streets over high fuel prices. In fact, no one does that.
Do they?

A response to Pompeo’s ridiculous demands of Iran in order to avoid US sanctions has been issued by the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif. The statement covers not only Trump’s erratic behaviour and his serial withdrawal to multilateral agreements, as well as the threats to other multinational organizations, but it also delves into the history of US-Iran relations going back a few decades, just in case Mke Pompeo happened to be suffering a bit of amnesia on the matter, or hasn’t bothered to read up on the subject.

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[Prefatory Note: This post is a modified and enlarged version of a talk I gave in Geneva a week ago. The audience was a blend of students of all ages from around the world, with almost none from Europe and North America, and several NGO representatives with lots of UN experience.]
 
 Why the peoples of the world need the UN: multilateralism, international law, human rights, and ecological sustainability
 

Former California Governor and action film star Arnold Schwarzenegger has met with French President Emmanuel Macron to make a video about their commitment to the environment while taking a dig at Donald Trump who recently withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
In the video, the French President claims that he and Schwarzenegger will “make the planet great again”.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to employees of the EPA in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)
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