The US president has repeatedly blamed countries like India and China for not doing enough about climate change, labeling them as regions with impossible to breathe air.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused China, India and Russia of failing to take care of their dirty air by justifying the US withdrawal from the historic Paris climate agreement.
“Look at China, how disgusting it is. Look at Russia. Look at India. The air is dirty, ”Trump said during the final presidential debate with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I got out of the Paris Agreement because we had to get billions of dollars and they treated us very unfairly,” he said in response to a question about climate change.
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Trump has repeatedly blamed countries like India and China for not doing enough about climate change, labeling them as regions with impossible to breathe air.
In 2017, Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Paris climate accord, saying that the international agreement to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius was disadvantageous for American workers.
He has continually argued that countries like China and India benefit the most from the Paris agreement.
Speaking to cheering supporters at an election rally in North Carolina state, a key battlefield, last week, Trump had blamed countries such as China, Russia and India for increasing global air pollution.
“We have the best environmental numbers, ozone levels, and many other numbers. Meanwhile, China, Russia, India, all these countries, are throwing things into the air, “he alleged during the rally.
China is the world’s largest carbon emitter, followed by the US, India and the EU.
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