I wish we would have stayed in it, but I find this quote from an interview with Rand Paul interesting:

Paul pointed out that the agreement tasks the United States with reducing its carbon footprint by 20 percent while China is under no environmental obligation for the next 20 years.

Nice strawman. You can still invest in new technologies while saving the jobs and money from a shit deal.

Tell that crap to China and India. 

Invest in what? This adminstration does not believe that Climate change is real, period. That's their position. They do not believe in any regulations for the environment. 

This isn't a "oh yeah, we're going to invest in renewables". 

And I'm sorry but why does Joe Dumbfuck in Kansas get to potentially put the world in peril, just so he can have a job? Maybe he should learn to be in an industry that isn't reliant on fossil fuels. Do you feel sorry for people who used to work at Blockbuster Video who got let go because technology changed and now people watch movies on Netflix? 

Boo fucking hoo. That's also capitalism, industries change with time, some go out of business after being eclipsed by new/better technology. You're not entitled to work in a coal plant from now until the 2050s just because you can't do anything else (or don't want to). 

What's soo bad about the deal? That you have to come down to the pollution numbers other countries have per capita? That's not a bad deal, that's a deal which makes every country equal after some years. You can't tell China that they have to reduce the numbers as much as you when they have already numbers not even half of what you have per capita. 

Here's my 2 cents:

• The United States will decline as a world power in every way possible faster than you can possibly imagine
• Trump voters who in the future are affected by climate change, be it something like a hurricane or a flood, don't have the right to complain
• The Republican party is the scum of the Earth, with their policies they'll kill and injure more Americans than any terrorist organization can dream of
• Anyone still too lazy to vote in the upcoming 2018 and 2020 elections is scum

No, we don't need to throw them under the bus. The US is not the world government and the US has already been doing it's part. The other layabouts can do their part without getting money from the US. 

That would require the countries in the agreement to actually comply with it (which none currently are). I'm not sure the restrictions and timeline stated for "developed countries" is very friendly for energy heavy countries. It'll hurt for several generations before the long term economic benefits.

Did you watch his speech? Stop making up strawmans. We can use our natural resources while everyone is developing new technology. You don't have to sacrifice one thing for the other. We don't need to kill alot of jobs to reach and accomplish clean energy. Companies from around the world are researching clean energy technologies and space travel. All the US needs to do is keep reducing it's negative effect on the envirnoment to an acceptable level while letting US companies innovate. If the rest of the world wasn't do anything in terms of researching new tech then yes the US should invest heavily in incentivizing  companies into researching clean energy that can meet the demands of the world but that's not the case. Companies are already researching it, though.

A christian's mentality destroying our world. Why I am not surprised?