You couldn’t have predicted a better occasion for a sequel to 2006’s An Inconvenient Truth than the 2016 election. It seemed changing the fate of our doomed planet, now predicted to warm a potentially devastating 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, was something we (or at least our world leaders) could agree on. A pact made on a global scale, with its implicit nods to opening the door to further peaceful collaborations between otherwise contentious nations, was considered a breakthrough. Under the 2015 agreement, the U.S., the world’s second-largest polluter, had agreed to commit billions of dollars in aid to less-developed nations by 2020. On the first of June, Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris agreement, a massive, 195-nation effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh," said President Donald Trump, "not Paris."
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