{"id":55401,"date":"2017-06-03T16:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55401"},"modified":"2017-06-03T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:09:29","slug":"trump-galvanizes-support-for-paris-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55401","title":{"rendered":"Trump galvanizes support for Paris Accord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Camer<\/strong>on &#8212; blowback (unintended consequence) i&#8217;m happy to see ]<br \/>\n,<\/p>\n<p>Trump galvanizes support for Paris Accord? That at least is what Gov. <strong>Jerry Brown<\/strong> of California believes just happened: President <strong>Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord is a &#8220;very misguided action&#8221; which will &#8220;act as a catalyst to galvanize the people of California and, I would say, of the whole world, to do the right thing in getting us on a path of sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Jerry-Brown-Trump-galvanizes-sustainability.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Jerry-Brown-Trump-galvanizes-sustainability.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Jerry-Brown-Trump-galvanizes-sustainability-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Two quick quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I certainly don&#8217;t think Trump, in his statement toiday is the last word &#8212; far from it. This is a temporary deviation from the norm, the world norm, and it will be corrected. How soon? I don&#8217;t know..<\/p>\n<p>Trump is going to act as the null hypothesis. He&#8217;s demonstrating that climate denial has no integrity and no future, and the opposite, climate activism, is the order of the day,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9_bBhRbuwQ?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>We are, I think, used to the pattern of <strong>blowback <\/strong>in the negative sense, as when news of the abuses at <strong>Abu Ghraib<\/strong> feeds into AQ recruitment &#8212; here we have, from my POV at least, an example of (possible, plausible) positive blowback, with a damn foolish action on the President&#8217;s part rousing a contrary movement for the good of planet and humankind.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something in all this that <strong>Chuang Tzu<\/strong> would relish, at least when not taking himself for a butterfly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; blowback (unintended consequence) i&#8217;m happy to see ] , Trump galvanizes support for Paris Accord? That at least is what Gov. Jerry Brown of California believes just happened: President Trump&#8216;s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord is a &#8220;very misguided action&#8221; which will &#8220;act as a catalyst to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869,526,1112,1314,793,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blowback","category-charles-cameron","category-climate","category-donald-trump","category-global-warming","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55411,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55401\/revisions\/55411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}