PRESIDENT Trump’s decision to pull the USA out of the Paris accord on climate change is an unprecedented case of national self interest as well as an abuse of the lives of those who currently struggle elsewhere in the world and, in particular, the well being of future generations.

Climate changing greed is putting at risk the lives of our grandchildren and great grandchildren.

He dismisses the high quality of climate science from most American universities, world leaders in much of it, and, while they’ll carry on irrespective of the damage done by their willfully ignorant president and his corporate supporters, research funding, and fields of investigation, are being seriously curtailed.

In removing targets for energy production, as well as car and aviation performance, while allowing oil drilling, gas exploration and fracking in federal and arctic areas, he will ensure that the two degree global limit of temperature growth this century will certainly be missed, with dangerous and unlimited consequences.

It’s difficult to understand how the President can ignore the current US evidence, with record droughts in California and Texas, extreme flooding in Louisiana, parts of the Florida coast disappearing, while recently hurricane Sandy hammered New York.

However the good news is that India, China, and the remaining EU states are on target with developing renewable energy and will likely meet their targets as all three steadily reduce the use of coal and promote solar and wind energy. Additionally some US states, such as California, and many American industries, will carry on with their renewable development irrespective of the president as it’s proving profitable.

The answer to the Trump decision should be an international carbon tax on imports from the US to remind him that CO2 is global, though the current UK government is reluctant to take practical action seemingly being satisfied with a few admonishing words.