ABSTRACT
On June 1, 2017, U.S. president Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The news shocked many citizens and ofcials in the 195 states that had agreed in Paris in 2015 to voluntarily meet carbon reduction targets using methods of their own choosing. Public opinion polls taken right after the November 2016 election showed that nearly 70 percent of Americans supported the climate accord, while only 26 percent of Republicans opposed it. Even among Trump voters, a plurality (47 percent) supported the agreement.2 Many corporations today have also gotten on board with the global campaign to curb greenhouse gases. Nevertheless, and despite so much scientic evidence that carbon emissions threaten the planet’s survival in the next century, Trump remains a “climate change denier.”
