Reacción a "Trump signs the US back out of the Paris Agreement"
Fernando Valladares
PhD in Biology, CSIC researcher and associate professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid
The new US exit from the Paris Agreement is bad news. It may not have all the terrible consequences that we might think, but in principle it is very discouraging that it happens in the midst of the exponential evolution of extreme weather events that the US itself is suffering both on the west coast with the California fires, and recently the hurricane season, with hurricanes Helen and Milton. This is ample evidence that climate change is a reality that is impacting the US itself. It is a very bad sign that your country is pulling out of an agreement that attempts to mitigate climate change.
It remains to be seen what it will be able to do and what consequences it will have for other countries and for international agreements, such as protocols and climate summits, but it is a blow to the table. It also creates a vicious circle that can be lethal. The vicious circle can be illustrated, for example, with the melting of the Arctic. The Arctic melts, runs out of ice and this allows more oil tankers, more oil tankers favor the short term economy, this short term economy puts more oil tankers in an Arctic that melts for more warming, more oil, less ice, more economy, less planetary health, warming .... A vicious circle in which the last chances of humanity to stay in a climatically safe zone are literally being burned.