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      “More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.

      An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And **Marco Rubio, the secretary of state,** personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.

      These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration.” – The New York Times

    2. I think this is a good time to remind everyone that even *if* countries stick to their climate pledges, we’re looking at a potential global warming of up to 2.5°C in 2100. And we have a tragic history of underestimating the effects.

      There are ways to combat, mitigate and even partially reverse what’s ahead. Don’t get lethargic. Too much is at stake. Get organized. Protest. Argue at dinner tables. Pick the slightly more uncomfortable, more environmentally friendly road. And fucking vote.

    3. Trump had a speech recently where he talked about how smoggy and polluted China was and how you couldn’t breath and in the same breath said climate change was a hoax.  

    4. >They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration.

      Because the GOP is an organized crime syndicate.

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