Pittsburgh has unexpectedly become a climate battleground after Trump ditched the Paris Agreement

Business Insider ^ | June 3, 2017 | Allan Smith

[E. Pluribus Unum]

With one sentence, President Donald Trump placed Pittsburgh at the center of a post-Paris climate battle.

"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," he said during his Thursday Rose Garden speech announcing that he would withdraw the US from the Paris climate deal, which aims to prevent global warming. Trump later mentioned Detroit, Youngstown, Ohio, and Pittsburgh as cities he was putting "before Paris, France" by ditching the agreement that nearly every country in the world has signed on to.

It was a clear reference to Pittsburgh's past as a steel and industrial titan, an image that has given way over the past 30 years to its current status as a growing healthcare and tech hub located in the Rust Belt.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Many close to the city didn't see things quite the same way as Trump, including Pittsburgh's mayor, Bill Peduto.

"I started getting a lot of questions about his reference to the city of Pittsburgh," Peduto, a Democrat, said on CNN. "The city of Pittsburgh voted for [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton with nearly 80% of the vote. He may be talking about all of Western Pennsylvania, but it's a far cry from being Pittsburgh."

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/about-pittsburgh/history/

[piasa]

Alcoa Corp. moving headquarters back to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Apr 19, 2017 | Len Boselovic

[xzins]

Evidently the mayor of Pittsburgh thinks he/she is mayor only of those who for him/her.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"healthcare hub" = parasites

Healthcare in this country is a giant collusion between government and crony capitalists. To refer to it as an "industry" is ridiculous. It is an extortion racket propped by a Kafkaesque labyrinth of regulations, laws, set-asides, coerced subsidies, payments, and kickbacks. It is devoid of any free market influences whatsoever.

[Parley Baer]

So the mayor represents globalist interests over Pittsburgh interests.

[beelzepug]

“...ditching the agreement that nearly every country in the world has signed on to.”

The only reason the rest of this welfare planet gives two schitz if we stay on board is because they need us to pay for it. Otherwise, we might as well sink to the depths of the ocean right now. It would serve them right if we did.

[jeffersondem]

“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”

Pittsburgh? The President was clearly speaking of Pittsburg, Texas.

[VeniVidiVici]

So the Pittsburgh mayor is proud of the fact that his city has “grown” on the backs of taxpayer money?

Part of their increase in employment is “social assistance”? What they hell is that.

[Cowboy Bob]

The citizens of Paris, Texas are deeply saddened.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Did he specifically say Pennsylvania?

Other places

Pittsburgh (Atlanta), a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
Pittsburgh, North Dakota, U.S.
Pittsburgh Junction, Ohio, U.S.

I imagine these Pittsburg’s will stand with the President.

[Jim from C-Town]

It is, but it is due to a spin off. The parent company ARCONIC spun ALCOA off, changed its’ name and retains about 20% of ALCOA stock. The one company ARCONIC is still based in NYC with about $12Billion in revenue, for the time being anyway. The new ALCOA, with about $9 Billion in revenue, is now back in Pittsburgh, where it belongs.

[reg45]

Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee - the location of the Battle of Shiloh (April, 1862)

[GOPJ]

Is the mayor of Pittsburgh going to pony up a billion dollars - the billion the world's parasites demanded with this treaty?

Or is he just going to grandstand and bitch? (it's rhetorical - I know the answer)

[deport]

Those are spelled differently. Pittsburg

PA .. Pittsburgh

[Doogle]

Go Pirates

[Pilgrim's Progress]

He spoke it, though . . . he didn’t write it. They are all pronounced the same.

[angelcindy]

no one can stand this mayor.....

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[SaxxonWoods]

Climate battleground my ass.

Pittsburgh is just this week’s place for all the usual loony groups, LGBT, anarchists (for the environment!, yeah right), communists, feminists, BLM, and dopeheads looking for a party to appear and raise hell.