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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsListen to Jerry Brown's amazing response to Trump's announcement and you will never forget it
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-showI hope I have started this video at the right place. I am posting this around so people who do not have cable will benefit from learning how California and other states are responding to Trump's decision.
I have always admired Jerry Brown. He certainly made California proud tonight, and he showed the rest of us how to respond to a Trump debacle.
Sam
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Gov. Brown is the effing man. 49 other states should be so lucky to have a governor like him.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)I just could not believe Trump actually did announce the United States would withdraw from the Paris agreement. I sat in my chair and listened to a lot of MSNBC reporting this evening, which was excellent. By the time I heard Jerry Brown's speech, I immediately became enrapt and did not want to miss a word. I can't believe how much better I feel now. I have hope again.
He is catching a plane to China TOMORROW to begin negotiations.
Sam
oasis
(49,426 posts)Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)moonscape
(4,674 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)I have always admired him, but I do believe he showed us tonight when Trump throws a punch, refuse to fall down, turn around, pick up your feet and keep on trucking without him. That is the lesson he taught us.
Sam
moonscape
(4,674 posts)tries to thwart CA's effort re climate change, or threaten data-collecting via budget slashing, then "we'll put up our own dammed satellites!'
He commented he didn't get his former nickname Governor Moonbeam (during his first governorship when he talked about launching communications satellites) for nothing!
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Republicans made fun of him for that, but Dems knew we had just a different kind of fighter. He is a standout in the crowd.
Sam
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Governor's Press Office
Thursday, June 1, 2017 (916) 445-4571
Governor Brown Issues Statement on White House Paris Climate Agreement Announcement
SACRAMENTO In response to President Donald Trumps decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued the following statement today:
Donald Trump has absolutely chosen the wrong course. Hes wrong on the facts. Americas economy is boosted by following the Paris Agreement. Hes wrong on the science. Totally wrong. California will resist this misguided and insane course of action. Trump is AWOL but California is on the field, ready for battle.
Building on the global momentum to combat climate change and continuing Californias leading role in broadening collaboration amongst subnational leaders, Governor Brown will travel to China tomorrow to strengthen California's long-standing climate, clean energy and economic ties with the nation. The Governor will also attend the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany to represent subnational jurisdictions that remain committed to climate action.
California, the sixth-largest economy in the world, has advanced its nation-leading climate goals while also growing the economy. In the last seven years, California has created 2.3 million new jobs outpacing most of the United States cut its unemployment rate in half, eliminated a $27 billion budget deficit and has seen its credit rating rise to the highest in more than a decade.
California's Leadership on Climate Change
Governor Brown attended the United Nations 2015 Climate Conference (COP21) at the invitation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary and France's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development. Over the course of the conference, the Governor met with the UN Secretary-General, China's Special Envoy on Climate Change, France's Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, the U.S. Energy Secretary and former Vice President Al Gore, and participated in a number of events with other world leaders. Last April, the Governor traveled to the United Nations Headquarters in New York to participate in events marking the first day parties signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Californias ambitious climate action includes the Under2 Coalition an international pact among cities, states and countries to limit the increase in global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius, the level of potentially catastrophic consequences formed in 2015 by California and Baden-Württemberg, Germany in the lead up to COP21. The growing coalition now includes 170 jurisdictions on six continents that collectively represent more than 1.18 billion people and $27.5 trillion GDP equivalent to 16 percent of the global population and 37 percent of the global economy.
Eighteen U.S. jurisdictions have joined the Under2 Coalition, representing 89 million people and 28 percent of the U.S. population. The Governors upcoming trip to China includes meetings in Sichuan and Jiangsu, the first Chinese provinces to join the Under2 Coalition.
In March, Governor Brown reaffirmed California's commitment to exceed the targets of the Clean Power Plan and the state's efforts to curb carbon pollution, which include establishing the most ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets in North America and the nation's toughest restrictions on destructive super pollutants. The Governor has also signed legislation that directs cap-and-trade funds to greenhouse gas reducing programs which benefit disadvantaged communities, support clean transportation and protect natural ecosystems.
This action builds on landmark legislation the Governor signed in October 2015 to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and double the rate of energy efficiency savings in California buildings. Governor Brown has also committed to reducing today's petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent within the next 15 years; make heating fuels cleaner; and manage farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon.
The Governor has traveled to the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Vatican in Italy and the Climate Summit of the Americas in Toronto, Canada to call on other leaders to join California in the fight against climate change. These efforts build on a number of other international climate change agreements with leaders from the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, China, North America, Japan, Israel, Peru, Chile, Australia ,Scotland and Sweden and Governor Brown's efforts to gather hundreds of world-renowned researchers and scientists around a groundbreaking call to action - called the consensus statement - which translates key scientific climate findings from disparate fields into one unified document.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)I read it even though I had watched the video.
It is a wonderful development during these rough political times.
Sam
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Big mistake for the ass to paint a target on California's back; Brown and Attorney General Becerra have been tooling up from the get-go for the many upcoming fights: Climate Change, Immigration, and Health Care.
Hell, the state legislators are totally on board, too, and hired former US Attorney General Eric Holder to advise on potential legal challenges from the next White House.
Bring it on, sucker
calimary
(81,523 posts)the tax revolt across the country and led to the rise of reagan.
I love my governor!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)I hope learning this helps lift your spirits. It certainly did mine. It was very therapeutic watching and listening to someone stand up to Trump. Wonder how Trump is handling it....
Sam
MFM008
(19,821 posts)Stands beside him!
Hekate
(90,848 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Between our governor's response and the fact that single payer (SB562) passed the State Senate today, this California Democrat's bustin' her buttons!