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Fun fact: between 2005 and 2017 the US carbon emissions fell 12.4% on an absolute basis and 19.9% on per-capita basis. The reductions continued under the Trump administration which would suggest that they are economically sensible in their own right. In 2017 we emitted about as much carbon as we did in 1990. That's not perfect: the EU now emits 19% less CO2 than it emitted in 1990, but that's a heck of a lot better than China which now emits twice as much CO2 as the US does, and which was exempt from some of the more aggressive parts of the agreement until 2030 (and isn't at all on track to comply even then). The whole thing was idiotic for the US to sign, irrespective of what you think of climate change: it has no teeth whatsoever against by far the largest polluter, and therefore it's not worth the paper it's written on, and it would not move the needle one iota.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=40094