As the argument goes, we don't have to live by the Paris Acccords because it takes two-thirds of the Senate to enter into a foriegn treaty -- and President Biden didn't even seek Senate approval; he figured executive order was quite enough.
All I'll say is that if that is standing in the way of public approval of the Paris Accords, the Senate should be rushing to vote on and approve the agreement. Every senator should be saying, Oh, no, don't you lay this on me. Make no mistake. I do favor the Paris Agreement. I am in favor of it.
They should be saying, Mr. President, don't leave us out of this. Don't you try to hog all the credit. We also want to save the planet. Anything we can do to help, we want to be part of.
Truth be told, it is very possible that if put to a vote, the Paris Agreement would not be approved. Why? Because not everyone is onboard with the notion that climate change is a problem. Perhaps not even close. It might well be there are almost a third of our senators who disbelieve in climate change.
And, that's a problem.
If the top legislators of the nation that other nations turn to for leadership do not favor fighting climate change -- if so many of them disbelieve in global warming -- how do we expect we will ever dodge the bullet and survive global warming?
If this were sports, and we rounded up some players who didn't even care about the game, that would be a problem. It's a silly game to them and they have better things to do.
If we are going to solve the climate change crisis, we need our leaders onboard. If the people doing the leading don't even believe, don't expect them to do much leading. If they don't believe in the cause, the cause is really in trouble.
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