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Trump was elected.
Those were the only concerns taken into account.
No.
Yes.
It'll discourage other countries from living up to the targets of the agreement, whether they continue participating on paper or not.
It makes China's environmental efforts look good in comparison, so the logical thing to do (if lobbyist bribes weren't holding us back) would have been for the US to outcompete China in that field too, since being a market leader in renewable energy is getting more and more valuable with each passing year.
Undoubtedly.
For long term economic success, those environmental responsibilities must be fulfilled to account for the negative externalities of any industry that pollutes the environment. Ignoring them offsets those costs onto others, artificially increasing short-term profits.
Only short term economic burdens were considered. Entire industries will make a lot more profit in the next couple years, at the cost of missing an industry-wide transition by the rest of the world. By the end of Trump’s reign, well not only be an international pariah for not even pretending to do our bit, but we’ll be stuck with a “buggy whip” industry when the world is driving “horseless carriages”
I’m sure there’s also personal spite. The guy does not like windmills