Weekly Opinion Editorial
TRUMP
PUT AMERICA FIRST!
by Steve
Fair
President Trump pulled the United States
out of the ‘Paris Climate Agreement’ last week.
The agreement was signed in December 2015 by representatives from 196
nations. It required countries to adopt
green energy policies and cut back on carbon emissions to help limit the rise
of global temperatures. The agreement’s primary
mission was to hold the increase in global average temperature to below 2
degrees C above the pre-industrial revolution levels.
The agreement, signed under President
Obama, had the US agreeing to reduce carbon emissions by 30% over the next
decade. To comply, the US government would
have to add more regulations to industry (oil, gas, coal, steel). According
to a study by the National Economic Research Associates, the Paris treaty would
have cost the US 2.7 million jobs over the next decade. The Paris agreement’s focus was to push the
global population to stop using fossil fuels and move to renewable energy (bio-fuel,
solar, wind). But the economic reality
is none of the alternative fuels have reached a point where they are financially
viable.
Current 40% of the nation’s corn crop is
going into our gas tanks in the form of ethanol, but the alcohol/gasoline is
supplying only 5% of the nation’s transportation. Meanwhile, consumers are paying substantially
higher prices for every food product that uses corn sweetener. Wind and solar energy have been subsidized
with $100 billion dollars of US taxpayer dollars in the past ten years, yet
combined they supply about ½ of 1% of the nation’s energy.
President Trump pointed out the Paris agreement
requires America to stop using coal fired plants, but China and India could
keep stoking up their coal plants. "The agreement doesn't eliminate coal
jobs, it just transfers those jobs out of America and the United States and
ships them to foreign countries," President Trump said. The US
had to reduce our carbon footprint disproportionate to other signers of the
agreement. EPA Administrator Scott
Pruitt said, “We have nothing to be
apologetic about as a country with respect to what we’ve done to reduce our Co2
footprint.”
Will man by his irresponsible use of
fossil fuel destroy the earth? The
Creator of the earth says no. In Genesis
8:22, God says so long as the earth is around, summer, winter, day, night,
seedtime and harvest will not cease (Genesis 8:22). I’ll take His word over Al Gore’s any day.
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian- American
physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Giaever. 88, is a
self-described atheist. He has been an
outspoken critic of global warming. "It is amazing how stable temperature has
been over the last 150 years,” Giaever says.
“Global warming has become a new religion.” Trump’s
pulling America out of a poorly negotiated treaty should be praised and
applauded. He really did put America
first.
Pastor John MacArthur has a GREAT YouTube video on the Biblical view of Global Warming. You can access it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnwB97fBj8
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