EBK BIOLOGY
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ISBN: 9780134819150
Author: Maier
Publisher: VST
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Chapter 5, Problem 2GFO
In June 2017, President Trump announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris accord. He stated that the accord was placing the country at a “debilitating and tremendous disadvantage” economically and was unfair because it did not impose the same level of emissions reductions on the United States relative to other countries. Search the Internet for evidence for and against his position on the effects of the Paris agreement. Do you think that taking the United States out of the agreement was a good choice?
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