{"id":38785,"date":"2017-06-02T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38785"},"modified":"2017-06-02T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:18:04","slug":"schrodingers-paris-accords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/schrodingers-paris-accords\/","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s Paris Accords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc:1080\/?post=370011\" target=\"_blank\">Ace<\/a> points out, the Paris Accords apparently have the same kind of precarious state of existance as Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The central argument of Trump&#39;s rationale is false. The agreement is non-binding. Nothing in it stops the US from doing whatever it wants.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/870369014874337289\">June 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>This is a common signal from Progressive Messaging Central. The claim being made is that the Paris Accords are simultaneously an ineffectual nothingburger of meaningless symbolism, so why even bother withdrawing?, but also are The Only Thing That Will Keep the Earth from Literally Dying.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, these can&#8217;t both be true at once: Either the Accords do something, or they do not do something. They cannot exist in a state of quantum indeterminacy where they remain in a mixed probabilistic waveform of both &#8220;doing something&#8221; and &#8220;doing nothing&#8221; until a Progressive Political Physicist takes a measurement of which state is most helpful for his Religious Fervor at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>This one isn&#8217;t over the top, so much as stupid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brendan.oneill.79\/posts\/1377413985682024\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a> posted this to Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The demented response to Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement &mdash; the world is doomed, our children will die, people will drown, locusts will swarm, fires will burn, and any criticism whatsoever of climate-charge alarmism is a species of heresy that must be destroyed &mdash; has reminded me why environmentalism is my least favourite ideology. Fearful, shrill, anti-progress, censorious and shamelessly marshalling sad-eyed children to the political end of stymying economic growth despite the fact that half of humankind still lives in poverty: greens are the worst. Trump is a rank amateur in the politics of fear in comparison with these bourgeois moaners and misanthropes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ace points out, the Paris Accords apparently have the same kind of precarious state of existance as Schr\u00f6dinger&#8217;s cat: The central argument of Trump&#39;s rationale is false. The agreement is non-binding. Nothing in it stops the US from doing whatever it wants. &mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 1, 2017 This is a common signal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,53,16],"tags":[245,1037,786,1020],"class_list":["post-38785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-humour","category-politics","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-donaldtrump","tag-paris","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a5z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38790,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38785\/revisions\/38790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}