PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT WENT INTO EFFECT:
4NOV 2016
THE FIRST DAY WE CAN LEGALLY WITHDRAW IS
4 NOV 2020.
THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS
3 NOV 2020.
YOU CAN FACT CHECK THIS POST, BUT I LOOKED IT UP FOR YOU. THIS IS REAL LIFE.
WE HAVE A FOUR YEAR WITHDRAWAL PROCESS AHEAD OF US. THERE ARE PROVISIONS IN THE AGREEMENT THAT KEEP ALL THE COUNTRIES IN FOR THREE YEARS. THE US PROCESS TO LEAVE IS ANOTHER YEAR.
LET’S GET TO WORK, PEOPLE.
IF YOU’RE MAD TODAY, GET OUT THE VOTE. VOLUNTEER. STAY ALERT. VOTE DEFENSIVELY AGAINST ANYONE THE DEMOCRATS RUN AGAINST HIM. THEY WANT US TO THINK THIS IS IT. THEY WANT US TO FEEL POWERLESS. WE ARE THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN THIS COUNTRY.
WE, THE PEOPLE.
AND WE HAVE TO FIGHT.
I just wrote this but PLEASE reblog it; I want this to go viral. People need to know. I NEED this to be the narrative, not that we’re in some pocket of fatalism. This rests in our hands. Donald Trump “made this decision” but it’s really YOURS. If you wanna stay in the Paris Climate Agreement, if you’re as passionate as all your social media posts are making me think you are, then you CAMPAIGN, and SPREAD THE WORD, and tell every single person who brings up the climate agreement that we have the voting power to stop this.
Addendum: My point is that the earliest possible date, if this clown car at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave gets their shit together and succeeds in passing everything through the House and Senate and necessary channels to leave in the least possible amount of time (incredibly unlikely), and has to do it after the 2018 midterms, you’re still looking at a lame-duck president trying to do this. More likely, it takes an extra two months, and they can’t get it done. It’s within reach. This administration wants you to feel powerless and like what they do is inevitable and mandated. It is not, by any means, and that includes this deeply harmful pissing contest to undo whatever the Obama administration has done because that’s the only thing all Republicans can agree on to appeal to their base.