Why The Paris Agreement Should The Paris Agreement Bring Positive Change?

As a resident of the northeast of the United States, we experience every season; snowstorms during the winter months, rain showers sprinkled throughout the spring, hot and humid summers, and cool breezes while leaves fall in Autumn. However, imagine this, every time it rains the rivers by houses overflow causing blocked streets. Category three hurricanes that shake houses and knock down trees turn into category five hurricanes that destroy entire communities. Heat waves that last for three or four days trapping everyone inside blasting their air conditioning will turn into heat waves that could last for months. The ocean levels rise to four feet, causing business such as fisheries the inability to provide fish for their consumers or jobs for …show more content…
The answer is obvious from the actions of the individual states with the United States of America. Three governors coming from the states of New York, California, and Washington, started an initiative called “the Climate Alliance” which has the principles to create strong communities, to become a leader in climate change initiatives, and to show the world that climate change action is achievable (US Climate Alliance). “Despite the U.S. federal government’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, seventeen states back the alliance and these alliance members are committed to supporting the international agreement and are pursuing aggressive climate action to make progress toward its goals” (US Climate …show more content…
These states believe that the Paris agreement would have created the opposite effect. The growth in clean energy creates jobs while supporting positive advancements of reducing air pollution and improving public health. Donald Trump promises to renegotiate any deal or agreement that does not benefit the United States, promising his actions are in the best interest of the United States; however, many state governors and cities’ mayors disagree. As Bill Peduto, mayor of Pittsburgh states in his quick response to Trump’s decisions “I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future” (Bill Peduto).
Many arguments that support the Paris Agreement include the point that the Paris accord would help improve the prosperity of the economy rather than hurt it, but how does the Paris agreement help the economy? Trump claims that the Paris Accord takes away jobs from American workers and decreases the global domestic product. He explained that exiting the Paris accord would “preserve jobs at power plants,