Two Democratic governors, California’s Gavin Newsom and New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham, were in Brazil to attend the summit, representing state-level U.S. efforts to curb emissions.
“What the hell is going on here?” Newsom asked at a global investors’ summit in São Paulo on Monday, where he fired off a characteristic criticism of the Trump administration. “We’re in Brazil — one of our great trading partners, one of the world’s great democracies. Home to all the rare earth metals we need. This is the country we should be engaging with, not slapping with 50% tariffs.”
Ten years ago, 195 nations taking part in the COP21 summit signed onto the landmark Paris Agreement, intended to commit individual nations to take measures that, collectively, would limit the rise in average global temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The objective in the agreement, which the Obama administration signed, was to pursue efforts to cap the global temperature increase at 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial levels.
That target now appears out of reach.
Everything else you wrote might be true, but that sentence shows that you are either deliberately misleading people, or have no idea what you are talking about. Please stop.
It’s fair to say that Newsom is not nearly as bad as orangeboi. But that bar is so low that you’d have to drill down into a tectonic subduction zone to find it.
Newsom is going for the populist anti-orangeboi sentiment. Newsom is also a consummate neoliberal and corporatist. He is not a good dude - he just happens to have a common enemy with the citizenry at the moment, which is the current federal regime. He is not a good dude, and his motives are anything but pure. I dearly fucking hope that the DNC establishment doesn’t go with him as the 2028 candidate (assuming we even have elections).
Now this I agree with