{"id":2789,"date":"2017-06-01T18:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T01:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2017-06-01T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T01:41:33","slug":"uh-about-that-paris-climate-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/uh-about-that-paris-climate-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"uh, about that paris climate agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is pulling the\u00a0United States out of the climate accord. How sad. Individual cities, companies, and states (hooray <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/take-two\/2017\/05\/31\/57107\/paris-climate-accord-3-ways-california-could-fill\/\">California<\/a>) have pledged to commit to the accord in spite of his decision, but I wonder how far-reaching the consequences will be. One commenter on today&#8217;s front-page New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/01\/climate\/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">article<\/a>\u00a0wrote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/why_does_my_future_get_to_be_decided_by_those_who_wont_live_in_it.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/why_does_my_future_get_to_be_decided_by_those_who_wont_live_in_it.png?resize=761%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/why_does_my_future_get_to_be_decided_by_those_who_wont_live_in_it.png?w=761&amp;ssl=1 761w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/why_does_my_future_get_to_be_decided_by_those_who_wont_live_in_it.png?resize=300%2C71&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen similar comments on\u00a0Brexit last year, and just about anything involving the health of the European Union or whatever backward\u00a0health bill today&#8217;s Republican-controlled Congress has rushed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Human beings can plan and worry themselves silly when it comes to an uncertain future. (For me, those panicky sweats are more annoying than useful on a regular week). But when it comes to decisions about the well-being of the planet and global community, I think\u00a0it&#8217;s a helpful voice to listen to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is pulling the\u00a0United States out of the climate accord. How sad. Individual cities, companies, and states (hooray California) have pledged to commit to the accord in spite of his decision, but I wonder how far-reaching the consequences will be. One commenter on today&#8217;s front-page New York Times\u00a0article\u00a0wrote: I&#8217;ve seen similar comments on\u00a0Brexit last year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/uh-about-that-paris-climate-agreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;uh, about that paris climate agreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-IZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}