Where Donald Trump doesn't exist
Needless to say--we--the U.S. should be there!!
Where Donald Trump doesn't exist
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/world/sutter-bonn-climate-trump/index.html
By John D. Sutter, CNN
Updated 8:47 AM ET, Wed May 17, 2017
More than 140 countries are meeting in Bonn, Germany, to discuss international climate policy.
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Bonn, Germany (CNN)There's a building here in Germany where Donald Trump doesn't exist -- or where people are trying very hard to believe that.
I stopped by on Tuesday to see what on Earth that's like.
The venue is the World Conference Center Bonn, and it's nothing to write home about on its own: glass ceilings, fluorescent lights and meeting rooms named for cities like Addis Ababa, Tokyo and Santiago. It's not far from the banks of the Rhine.
Inside, however, negotiators from more than 140 countries are gathering to talk about one of President Trump's least favorite topics: climate change.
Specifically the Paris Agreement, which seeks to shove the world out of the fossil fuel era, reduce pollution and avoid the very worst of global warming.
Given Trump's bombastic rhetoric on this subject -- as a presidential candidate he threatened to "cancel" the Paris agreement, and the US's role remains unclear as members of his administration continue to debate the pros and cons of withdrawal -- you'd think the climate wonks here would be talking all Trump all the time.
But the opposite is mostly the case.
