'BradCast' 5/31/2017 (We may not always have Paris...)
The comments from unnamed White House sources today that President Donald Trump plans to drop out of the landmark 2015 U.N. Paris Climate Agreement are ricocheting across the globe. Will he really drop out? If so, what do leaders from the rest of the world have to say about it?\xa0 What do leaders here in the U.S. think? What do senior members of his own administration think? What will Trump's own voters think? How would the decision effect both the global climate itself and the U.S. standing in the world? What are the costs financially of ceding leadership on issues of energy and climate, particularly at a moment when the costs of renewable energy like wind and solar are plummeting, and even fossil fuel companies are both recognizing the dangers of global warming and encouraging Trump to stay in the historic agreement the U.S. signed along with nearly 200 other countries? What are Trump's legal options for getting out of the pact, and what the hell explains his grievance and bizarre affection for the dying and dirty coal industry, anyway? Oh, and what do ExxonMobil shareholders think about it all? Those are just some of the many questions asked and answered on today's show, featuring Desi Doyen of 'The Green News Report', at this perilous moment in world history...