On the day of this being written, November 7th, 2017, Syria finally agreed to sign the Paris Agreement, the last nation to do so.

So that's it right, all 195 countries have signed?

We should start organizing parades and jumping for joy as the entire world has finally agreed on something. Oh wait, that's right. Under President Trump, the United States has decided to back out of the Accords. It's us versus the world.

To this day I have had a hard time understanding why people have not come to believe in climate change. But then again, there are a lot of them. I can remember an ad for the Bill O'Reilly Show in which he held a microphone to a young girl in time square and said its snowing.

She was all excited and said yeah! He then said, "So, you still think global warming is real?"

She just had a blank look on her face and Bill turned towards the camera, proudly smirking over his "triumph." Or there was that time a Republican Senator that threw a snowball onto the Senate floor to "disprove" that 2014 had been the hottest year on record.

Outside of the politics that have made getting the message across very difficult, millions of people around the globe have suffered from the effects of climate change. Whether it be the droughts that plague the western parks of the Untied States or sub-Saharan Africa, climate change has reached every corner of the globe. From the Arctic circle to Antarctica and everywhere in-between, unusual and often extreme weather has decimated the land and its peoples.

I ask you, the reader, to ask yourself several questions. Why did the United States leave the Paris Agreement? Are there reasons the Trump administration is not telling us as to why they made this decision? Do we know something the rest of the world does not? Is international corporation the way to go when tackling climate change?

I ask you the reader, the citizen, and those that represent us when making international legislature to always question why actions are taken. Is leaving an agreement that helps the world cut into CO2 emissions and find alternative uses of energy a good idea?

One of my worst nightmares is that one day we will reach the point of no return when it comes to climate change. Some say that day has already come. I fear for our children and our children's children as they will have to solve the issues that we caused. I fear that one day they will ask why we sat back and did nothing.

I don't want our planet to become what so many sci-fi movies have envisioned. I want to see the Earth prosper and be a safe haven for all life. Climate change is the greatest issue of our time. No other issue matters if there is no planet for those issues to occur.