How the Paris climate deal pullout could hurt the U.S.

It’s not clear what we gain as a nation from pulling out of the Paris climate agreement. It is clear we’ve lost something; perhaps some influence as the leader of the free world.
Those who accept climate science see failure to act to reduce human-caused effects on the global climate as a looming disaster that would dwarf most others. But even those who don’t accept or don’t care that human activities might be warming the climate should be taken aback by the United States&