TIL Desk/World/Washington/ US President Donald Trump has sniped at India over climate change, claiming that garbage from India lands on the shores of the US and questioning why it should be paid to help fight climate change. Defending his decision to leave the Paris Agreement here on Tuesday, he made four points about India, three of them with questionable factual basis.
He said: “India, we are supposed to pay them money because they are a developing nation. I said, ”We”re a developing nation, too. Why aren”t we?”” He added that India, China and Russia “absolutely are doing absolutely nothing to clean up their smokestacks and clean up all of their plants and all of the garbage that they”re dropping in sea and that floats into Los Angeles, along with other problems that Los Angeles has, by the way. Isn”t (it) amazing it ends up in Los Angeles? Oh, what a — what a mess that is”.
He listed India among countries that “absolutely are doing absolutely nothing to clean up their smokestacks and clean up all of their plants and all”. Trump compared the size of India along with those of China and Rusia to that of the US, saying: “When people ask the question — your part of the question about climate — I always say: ”You know, I have a little problem. We have a relatively small piece of land — the United States”.”
