As a counter rebuttal to U.S. President Trump’s withdrawal
from the 2015 Paris Climate Deal, could former action star and California
governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and newly-elected French president Emmanuel Macron
“make the planet great again”?
By: Ringo Bones
A lot of the world’s head-of-states and environmental
ministers and secretaries might have been dismayed by U.S. President Donald J.
Trump’s withdrawal last month from the historic 2015 Paris Climate Deal – which
was signed by 195 countries and ratified by 147 aiming to reduce carbon
emissions and contain global warming. Could President Trump’s climate change
denial risking the long-term future of our planet? Thankfully, a recent 10-second
clip that represents a “new hope” to those dismayed by U.S. President Donald J.
Trump’s recent announcement to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Deal runs
for full duration with the caption: “With President Macron, a great leader!” It
ends with President Macron bringing out his new catchphrase: “We will deliver
together to make the planet great again.”
The good news is, is that the pact made in the recent
Sorbonne University meeting could eventually be put to the United Nations for
adoption and to impose legally-binding obligations on signatory states, its
drafters – comprising legal experts from several countries – have said. Attendees
at the Sorbonne include former United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon. It was chaired
by the former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius who also chaired the 2015 conference
on climate change.
Many world leaders are quite agog at President Trump’s
recent decision to withdraw from the historic Paris Climate Deal given his
mercantilist background. Since 2014, renewable energy systems like wind
turbines and solar photovoltaic and solar thermal electricity generation business
are already 3 times as profitable as their coal and crude oil based
counterparts and in the United States alone, the renewable energy industry
employ 3-times as much workers currently employed in the crude oil extraction and
coal mining sector. And many experts predict that automobiles fueled by crude
oil sourced fuels could become as rare as 1930s era automobiles still running
today by the year 2030.
