I’m surprised there is another Presidential action I can applaud.  Trump has led the US out of the Paris Climate Accord.  I applaud Trump’s courage to stand against the special interests of evil and the ideological rant of the Left.

While some feel the science is debatable, this was clearly not a scientific decision.  Perhaps climate temperatures are rising beyond normal deviations; maybe human actions have something to do with it; possibly the net effect of a rise in temperature would be more negative than positive, and the list goes on.  (It should be noted that the Left, even with its manipulation of the data and the attempts to shut down debate, has yet to conclusively show the veracity of their claims on any one of these issues.)

But the issue was never climate, and Trump’s speech laid out the real issue instead.  The real issue has always been an attempt to redistribute the wealth of the productive sector of humanity to other countries, with “a little” to line the pockets of the distributors, of course.  (I may stand corrected on this:  the bottom issue may indeed be what Ayn Rand pointed out over 45 years ago already –the destruction of the industrial revolution.  See her article “The Anti-Industrial Revolution, published 1971.  But the method chosen to achieve that end is redistribution of wealth and crippling of production – the hallmarks of the Paris Climate Accord.)

Are there free market ways to combat pollution and its negative consequences?  Yes.  And as was said today, America will be happy to lead by example.  Our chances of doing so are a little greater now than they were yesterday.

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