jwbeuk wrote:
Leaving the Paris agreement and leaving the Human Right's Council's are two very different things.
One is a Council we have been a party to for decades. One in which we disagree with often, have criticized often but have always stayed on. The other was a joke when it was negotiated and when it was signed.
Had any President but Obama unilaterally signed on to the Paris agreement all hell would have broken loose. Had any President but Trump pulled us out cheering would have ensued. It was a terrible deal that would have cost the United States billions while doing nothing for climate change. Kyoto had enforcement mechanisms and no one who signed on met their goals. They didn't even come close. Yet we think that countries are now going to voluntarily do the right thing. Crazy, again, seems that pulling out had more to do with hatred of Trump then fear of climate change.
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Well, except for when they got sick of us complaining about...human rights abuses, and punted us for a short while.
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For First Time, U.S. Is Excluded From U.N. Human Rights Panel
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BARBARA CROSSETTEMAY 4, 2001
In a move that reflected a growing frustration with America's attitude toward international organizations and treaties, the United States was voted off the United Nations Human Rights Commission today for the first time since the panel's founding under American leadership in 1947.
The ouster of the United States from the commission while nations like Sudan and Pakistan were chosen for membership was certain to generate further hostility to the United Nations among conservatives in Washington.
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http://www.nytimes.com/...an-rights-panel.html