President Trump is officially pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. I can’t even care.

The formal withdrawal from the pact adds to a long list of pro-business, anti-climate moves the Trump administration has made. After almost three years of policies detrimental to the environment, this latest insult is a mere footnote.

Trump scuttled President Obama’s plan for cleaner electricity, weakened regulations on methane, froze fuel-economy standards (that Obama had scheduled to tighten), eased fracking regulations, and lunged at every opportunity to bolster domestic fossil fuel production, including offshore drilling. Those changes alone represent gigatons more carbon in the atmosphere, now and for years to come.

He tried his best to prop up the coal industry, although it’s going bankrupt anyway. The administration even determined that the rules limiting mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were costing producers too much, despite the established science that says mercury impairs brain development in infants and children.

Leaving the Paris Agreement? If only that were the worst of it.

In this 2018 photo, President Trump watches French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Trump officially notified the U.N. on Monday of his intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. France and Germany remain in the agreement. (Francois Mori/AP)

The president's every move seems designed to spite climate activists and mollify his political base. Every action that flies in the face of the climate crisis further demonstrates how willing Trump is to antagonize a movement historically identified with the left, and how much he is dedicated to fossil energy dominance.

Nobody expected this president to get behind something like the Green New Deal, but there are measures that are palatable to conservatives he could have taken. Some prominent Republicans have come out in support of a carbon tax, for example. Even doing nothing about climate policy would be an improvement, but Trump sneers at anything that would put a chink in his armor of climate denial.