there really is going to be progress here. peter, that s what was sort of striking in the president s tweet this morning, right? this is a guy most of his deelds had to do with real estate, not with nuclear weapons. saying, i have confidence, kim jong-un, my partner in this deal, will abide by our handshake. yeah, exactly. i was struck also by the word contract he used. contract as if there was actually some sort of let s face it. this wasn t an agreement. this was a 391-word statement of intent, a statement that we would like to get to a certain place where we could denuclearize the north korean state. that was not a contract. there was no specifics in there. a contract in the same sense donald trump said i m going to sell you some floors on trump tower, but we re not going to tell you what the price s we re not going to tell you what the date of close is, how many floors we re going to sell, you know, where the financing would come. none of those details had been worked out. so
until 2030, to be their peak coal consumption. things will come down. china, for its own reasons, is going to reach that number much earlier, because they are shuttering coal factories, there were plans to create new coal plants that are not that are being taken offline. the reason, they recognize that solar is going to be in the not distant future less expensive energy source certainly than coal. china has big environmental problems. they ll be able to do both of those things simultaneously. yes, that was what was negotiated. it was negotiated because china and the united states and other economies are at different levels of development. to get everybody to come together, we had, again, it wasn t an agreement, but everybody had to wring what was possible. we had to pressure and cajole each other. paris was just a small first step. if we can t take a leadership role in just a small first step like this, it really bodes ill for what will happen not just on climate change going forward