A year after President Trump pulled out of the landmark Paris accord on climate change, Governor Jerry Brown said the world is only just beginning to feel the environmental harm inflicted by the Trump administration.
Some activists are optimistic that they can wait this administration out and are preparing reports to unveil at the global climate summit Brown is hosting in California in September, when new benchmarks will be proposed for getting the nation back on track for meeting its Paris commitments.
“He has set in motion initiatives that will cause damage,” Governor Jerry Brown said, comparing the planet under Trump’s climate policies to a person who has just fallen from the top of the Empire State Building. “You are falling down four stories, but have 80 to go,” he said. “Maybe you are not damaged yet, but it is certain you will die.”
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