US a step closer to being a rogue nation

Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate change accord overlooks the fact that the US is one of the big per-capita emitters of carbon dioxide, says Joseph E Stiglitz

UNDER Donald Trump’s presidency, the US took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state, on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he said in 2012: “The concept of global warming was created by, and for, the Chinese, in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.”