Trade deals or EARTH! This is crazy!

The TPP is the worst trade deal yet for workers, privacy, affordable health care and the environment.

Take a look at how even wonderful programs are being stopped by previous, less draconian trade agreements that don't care whether our Earth burns to a crisp or not.

From Huffington Post (follow link for entire article)

In just five years, thanks to India's National Solar Mission, India has gone from having virtually no solar capacity to boasting one of the world's fastest-growing solar industries. In just the last year, a parade of leading solar companies has announced plans to establish new factories in India to produce solar cells, the parts of solar panels that use sunlight to produce electricity. India has named the solar program as a core component of its contribution to the Paris agreement to tackle climate change.
But today, the WTO released its ruling against India's National Solar Mission, deciding that India's efforts to boost local production of solar cells violated WTO rules.

What is going on here? And it's not the only case like this:

The WTO ruling against India's homegrown solar program echoes another WTO ruling in 2013 against "buy-local" provisions in a groundbreaking clean energy program in Ontario, which had successfully reduced climate-disrupting emissions while creating thousands of green jobs. Three weeks after the WTO's ruling, Ontario eliminated its "buy-local" provisions and ended incentives for large-scale clean energy projects.

Speaking of bad trade deals, Ranking Democartic Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Sander Levin, has come out the TPP in its current (and only allowable) form. His thoughtful and thorough explanation is worth a read. You can see his talk to reporters attending the February 18 Christian Science Monitor breakfast.