Joseph E. Stiglitz should change his title. Instead of "Trump's rogue America" it should be "America's rogue Trump," because America has a problem with Trump, not vice versa. He had lied his way to the top, and more than 50% of Americans reject him. Luckily, "most Americans still believe in Enlightenment values, accept the reality of global warming, and are willing to take action." What is clear is that it requires decades to convince Trump and his small-minded, ignorant supporters, that the existential threat posed by climate change is real, and that a "reasoned debate" is urgently needed.

The author says, "the rest of the world cannot let a rogue US destroy the planet." Indeed, he can rest assured that we will not let Trump and his greedy lawmakers poison the world. Trump's "unenlightened" policies that focus on his "America First" agenda are both myopic and selfish. Under the hypocritical pretext of regaining America's sovereignty and defending domestic energy production and jobs, he and congressional Republicans help polluters in oil and gas industry - they are big GOP donors - maximise gains and asserting dominance.

According to the author, there is a way to show Trump what the global community stands for - altruism, trust, cooperation and virtue. "If he wants to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, the rest of the world should impose a carbon-adjustment tax on US exports that do not comply with global standards." The problem is that he will become vindictive when it comes to defending business interests in which he and "his other gilded rent-seekers" have a stake. He will most likely take actions to retaliate.

Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Accord has encouraged Europe and China to forge closer ties and deepen their "commitment to a green future" - a win-win solution "for the planet" and "for the economy." The European Union will assume moral leadership, advocating solidarity and huminity. What Trump oversees is that people tend to cooperate and have a set of universal intuitions that help establish harmony between them. There is no doubt that "Europe and Asia will achieve an almost insurmountable advantage over the US in the green technologies of the future." As Germany invests heavily in "technology and education," it wil have a "distinct advantage in advanced manufacturing over a US hamstrung by Republican ideology."

Europenas have also learned that Trump gravitates toward autocratic leaders and Arab despots. They all share his dirty-minded pragmatism that life is a selfish struggle for wealth, power and glory. Europe "can’t rely on a Trump-led US for its defense." The author urges Europe to "recognize that the Cold War is over – however unwilling America’s industrial-military complex is to acknowledge it." He advises NATO countries to ignore America's demand for spending 2% of their GDP on military.

"While fighting terrorism is important and costly, building aircraft carriers and super fighter planes is not the answer. Europe needs to decide for itself how much to spend, rather than submit to the dictates of military interests." Trump doesn't know that a country can't rely totally on its military capabilities to thrive. It needs to invest in human resources as well and meet the challenges posed by this ever changing world. "Political stability may be more surely gained by Europe’s recommitment to its social-democratic economic model" than by its military might.

