Power struggle

摘要

AT THE UN climate summit in Bonn last November some Americans came up with their own riposte to President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement. Outside the main conference building they put up a tent housing a rowdy coalition of people from 20 states and no cities under the banner "We are still in". Some non-American delegates at the conference found this fringe event more reassuring than the climate talks themselves. It showed that, even without Mr Trump and the federal government, local activists in America are committed to the spirit of the agreement.