The United States Will Withdraw From the Paris Agreement

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Wax's umer erfon says we'd have to turn back the hands of time to paris 20 15. That was when just about every country in the world agreed to limit climate change. And even if humans do stop putting carbon in the atmosphere, who's responsible for all the carbon that's already stuck there? We meet with the eyes of history upon us and the profound questions before us. It's simple, will we act? Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us, or we condemn future generations to suffer? Ok?

While world leaders have descended on Glasgow to try to figure out how to slow emissions in the future, New York magazine’s David Wallace-Wells argues rich countries like the United States should also atone for their polluting past.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid and Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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