Thursday afternoon, President Trump announced his intention to pull the United States out of the Paris agreement designed to limit emissions and slow dangerous climate change, a move that won't actually be completed until the day after the 2020 election. Also Thursday, Elon Musk announced he'd be leaving his spot on Trump's presidential councils due to the decision.

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Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 1, 2017

Musk announced his intention to do so yesterday, and evidently he's following through. Musk was part of Trump's "strategic and policy forum" and manufacturing jobs initiative. Pulling the United States out of the Paris agreement is just one way the Trump administration has taken steps to hamper policies that could delay the progress of climate change—President Trump's proposed NASA budget also includes slashes to departments devoted to Earth Science in favor of programs that focus on crewed flight.

Hopefully Musk's own plans to ferry humans offworld will come to fruition before it's too late.

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