The paris agreement was supposed to be the world's largest NPR pledge drive, or you could call it a Telethon, or you could call it lets get a group of friends together and we all agree to lose weight together and the honor code keeps us honest where we watch each other back and we will not allow any of us to quit the diet until we see results.

Where every agrees that it is important to hold Global Temperatures from rising at least +2 degrees Celsius / +3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, with the real goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius / +2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.

The actual donations and such were voluntary and there was no consequences of failing to make the donations that you agreed to prior in this pledge drive / telethon, it was just an agreement to have a pledge drive in the future and to keep the pledge drive going until the goal was reached.

It was all a system that worked on good faith and the honor code. You could be a free rider on this system and the only consequence of being a free rider where you make a voluntary pledge, whose amount you set up was of your own decision, was that you would feel shame for you did not live up to the peer pressure of agreeing to make a pledge in the first place and sticking with the pledge.

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The people who advocate getting out of the Paris Agreement are people who say this is a stupid idea, and I do not like being associated with stupid ideas...even though the stupid idea may have worked (it may have helped reduce the amount of global warming) or may have failed (global warming may have ended up 2 degrees centigrade or higher).

No they whole idea is silly and lets get out of it. We think this silly idea is a farce and we are the "real people" the realists and not the idealists. Or instead of calling people who supported the Paris Agreement ideals...idealists...they say those people are nuts, like cultists who drink the Jonestown^1 koolade in the middle of South America

^1 Jamestown Originally I put down Jamestown and not Jonestown but I caught my mistake before finishing the sentence, let alone hitting the submit button for my post. I am bringing up the error I made before it was a mistake for I think the irony is so much...so much I can't use a few sentences to describe it. It was a near disaster...yet it succeeded...it was the first colony settlement but the charter of 1606 split the US territory into two different land grants one for Plymouth Company and one for the London Company and these groups had different goals of religion vs capital goals. The London company who founded Jamestown almost did not succeed until disaster happened and then Captain John Smith took over. Yet when he left years later the village / town fell on another era of dark times with 2/3rds of the settlers dieing over a single winter. Now the Plymouth colony was not much more successful see the First Thanksgiving...which was not seen as a good thing when it actually happen (1621). It did happen as a harvest festival, but it became a propaganda piece until a few years later when in 1623 it was announced reinforcement colonists and supplies were coming to Plymouth so remember that first harvest festival we did 2 years earlier. Lets make that an annual tradition for it is through divine providence that we are saved, and having a yearly thanksgiving festival may keep us humble for America sucks in its natural condition, and I (Roland00 am paraphrasing) it is only through physical infrastructure, cooperation and brotherhood with our neighbor, and the luck of a non vengeful Lord that we do not die each year.

Jamestown, Jonestown, Plymouth Rock, what is the difference, we are all dead in the end, death and taxes the two constants of the universe.