{"id":310947,"date":"2017-06-02T12:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-good-for-america-or-world-musk-abandons-trump-advisory-role-after-paris-deal-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:23:50","slug":"not-good-for-america-or-world-musk-abandons-trump-advisory-role-after-paris-deal-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-good-for-america-or-world-musk-abandons-trump-advisory-role-after-paris-deal-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not good for America or world\u2019: Musk abandons Trump advisory role after Paris deal withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.06\/thumbnail\/59307dc0c361882f1c8b45ef.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 1 Jun, 2017 21:25 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Elon Musk has followed through on his threat to leave Donald Trump\u2019s White House advisory council after the president reneged on the Paris accord.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>The Tesla and SpaceX CEO fulfilled his promise Wednesday, saying he had done all he could to convince Trump of the threat posed by climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#8217;t know which way Paris will go, but I&#8217;ve done all I can to advise directly to POTUS, through others in WH &amp; via councils, that we remain<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/869970236669177856\">May 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will have no choice but to depart councils in that case<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/869971423455924224\">May 31, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Musk served on both Trump\u2019s economic advisory board and his manufacturing jobs initiative council.<\/p>\n<p>Trump repeatedly referred to employment statistics during his announcement Thursday, citing job losses in manufacturing, steel and coal industries as unacceptable for the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>This was seemingly the last straw for Musk, who took to Twitter to confirm that he would be <em>\u201cdeparting presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/870369915894546432\">June 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Musk previously drew criticism for remaining in the presidential advisory councils, especially after fellow tech CEO Travis Kalanick resigned in protest at the so-called <em>\u201cMuslim ban.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0At the time, Musk stated that <em>\u201cengaging on critical issues [would] on balance serve the greater good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Musk is the CEO of Tesla, a company aiming to revolutionize the electric car and battery storage industries. He\u2019s also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarcity.com\/company\/team\">chairman<\/a> of SolarCity, which aims to make distributed solar energy as affordable and accessible as possible across the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Under Paris deal, China committed to produce as much clean electricity by 2030 as the US does from all sources today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F8Ppr2o7Rl\">https:\/\/t.co\/F8Ppr2o7Rl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/870380036750168065\">June 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Musk was also quick to point out the flaws in Trump\u2019s arguments about emissions from China canceling out any potential future US improvements in CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/390530-musk-trump-paris-advisory-councils\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 1 Jun, 2017 21:25 Elon Musk has followed through on his threat to leave Donald Trump\u2019s White House advisory council after the president reneged on the Paris accord. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO fulfilled his promise Wednesday, saying he had done all he could to convince Trump of the threat posed by climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}