31 before and after images of climate change that show why the Paris agreement is so important

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would be pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, a deal struck between 195 countries promising to help curb the damaging causes of climate change.

"We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore," Trump said at the White House Rose Garden, claiming the deal's unfair treatment to America would hurt businesses, workers and taxpayers.

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"We're getting out," Trump said, "but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair. If we can, that's great. If we can't, that's fine."

Trump's rejection of the Paris climate deal comes at a time of back-to-back record-breaking temperature years, unprecedented wildlife damage and effects so severe they can be spotted via satellite imagery.

The United States is one of three countries, including Syria and Nicaragua, who abandoned the international climate agreement. It should be noted that Nicaragua rejected the deal because the climate change-curbing goals were not strict enough.

According to The Washington Post, the U.S. is the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter and its participation in the deal would have accounted for 21 percent of the total achievable emission reductions that were set by 2030.

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With no plan in place for reducing the United State's 6.3 million kilotons of total greenhouse

gas emissions — more than twice the amount emitted by the next two countries combined, India and Brazil — the disturbing trend of rising global temperatures may continue, especially without the help of U.S. leadership.

Unfortunately, as the new administration idles in search for a better deal, the effects of climate change can be both felt and seen.

Click through above to see 31 terrifying before and after images of climate change.