Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday described the air in India, Russia and China as “dirty” when denouncing Democratic rival Joe Biden’s plans to tackle climate change late on Thursday.
In his second and final presidential debate, Trump renewed his criticism that action on climate change was unfair to the United States. “Look at China, how disgusting it is. Look at Russia, look at India, it’s disgusting. The air is disgusting,” Trump said at the debate in Nashville, Tennessee.
The US president also accused India, China and Russia of failing to take care of their ‘dirty air’ by justifying the US withdrawal from the historic Paris climate agreement.
“I got out of the Paris Agreement because we had to get trillions of dollars and they treated us very unfairly,” he said in response to a question about climate change.
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 like 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 claimed during the rally.
China is the world’s largest carbon emitter, followed by the US, India and the EU.
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