It really was iconic. He really had spent a lifetime as a committed environmentalist and developed the connections over decades that he used to get that impossible deal. I don't know if it was his idea or Alexandra's for him to take that adorable little girl up with him to sign it, but it said so much about why this was needed.
I heard the NPR segment with Kerry and was not surprised that he is already speaking of the states, cities and companies acting where the President won't. (It reminded me of many things he was saying on the book tour when the dysfunctional 109th Congress and President Bush were not going to take the lead.) http://www.npr.org/2017/06/02/531173457/john-kerry-weighs-in-on-the-u-s-withdrawing-from-climate-agreement
I like how he seems to be intentionally baiting Trump by saying Trump put America last. I saw a tweet yesterday that I assume was not fact based but it made a good point that now Ortega might sign for Nicaragua because he would not want his country in the same small category as Trump's America. They already have goals that far exceed what most countries have.
Looking at twitter, I do not see any stories yet of any country joining Trump. Russia actually confirmed they were in. However, many articles suggest that this action has actually had the opposite effect to what Trump likely wanted. Jerry Brown was on fire on MSNBC last night speaking of similar minded states working together and maybe with China, Mexico, Canada .. Here is an article that speaks of corporations finally coming completely on board - https://www.vox.com/2017/6/1/15724966/corporate-america-paris-climate-deal Articles that speak of China and India actually moving directly to clean energy as they expand their energy is just what was recommended as far back as the Bali conference.
None of this diminishes Trump's baseness or destructiveness. He is genuinely evil. Not to mention, we all got a huge dose of the complete lies of the far right from his speech. Today, there is a thread that he got "expert" advise from Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News, who told him we were already a leader for green energy and we didn't need that "harmful" accord! Somehow she missed that we account for far more than our share of carbon - we are second to China only in raw numbers. Their per capita use is much smaller.
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