Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As pension and global warming fuel tax riots continue, French climate activists have expressed their anger at President Macron for failing to deliver on his climate promises.
Macron vows ‘fight of the century’ against climate change
Macron visits melting glacier, but opponents decry it as an electoral stunt.
France’s leader on Thursday called the battle against climate change and environmental destruction “the fight of the century”, after visiting a melting glacier in the French Alps.
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But Macron faces vociferous opposition on multiple fronts over climate change. Activists say his lobbying for global action is not backed up by sufficient French government measures to curb the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. France is behind on its European renewable energy commitments, ranking second from bottom in the EU, according to Eurostat.
Macron has also delayed by 10 years plans to reduce the share of French energy derived from nuclear power from 71 percent to 50 percent.
Beyond the government, opponents in France’s yellow vest economic protest movement fiercely opposed Macron’s efforts to raise fuel taxes to combat pollution, complaining that the move penalised regular workers on tight budgets.
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Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/macron-vows-fight-century-climate-change-200213191707107.html
Can anyone think of a single important policy initiative which President Macron has successfully introduced? Macron promised the impossible, but inevitably failed to deliver. Now pretty much everyone thinks he is a failure.
So far, my prediction that going forward, Nothing is Going to be Done à la Paris Agreement, except a crescendo of ‘talk’. Virtue signaling is even going to attenuate and walking back on the science has begun (Richard Betts of the UK Met Office a month or so ago said a 2C rise wouldn’t be catastrophic – but try to find a link in this ‘alarmist climate’!).
Macron shows that his advisors are telling him to drag his feet, particularly on the idiocy and irrelevance vis à vis nuclear shutdown . He knows nuclear has been getting more support from greens and he’ll stand pat on their world’s best nuclear fleet. It is a potential big industrial plus for France when the rest of the world comes around to going nuclear. The man has gone up in my estimation, but ‘Trumpian” Marine Le Pen seems ready to take over government anyway.
Marine Le Pen would LOVE many of Bernie’s policies that don’t involve the border or immigration in general. State of control of energy? She is for it. State control of railways? Of course! Forbidding buses from opening lines that “steal” travelers from the national railway? More that absolutely obvious choice! For the “far right” workers with quasi civil servants status is good, unions that can paralyse the country are OK and free choice is dangerous.
MLP is aligned on a lot of policies with the French communist party of the 80ties (the communists at the time consider mass immigration as having reached the maximum that was bearable for French workers; workers and family immigration only accelerated since).
MLP is the absolute anti-Trump on anything economic. She despises economic liberalism and considers it as bad as communism and fascism.
MLP thinks state money is free money. She wants to abolish the Euro not because it’s a bad idea but because it’s a good idea, because it’s a currency that local politicians can’t use to fund their pet projects.
She managed to lose all supports from the French centrists by doing the belly danse around Marxists of the party of Mélenchon; but the Mélenchonists still despise her.
MLP and the the “far right” formerly Front National, now Rassemblement National are Keynesian like 99% of French politicians. She wants to control the New French Franc to have a supply to do great stuff, probably like AOC but with more hydrogen cars.
MLP would still forbid fracking like Macron. She would be more strongly against glyphosate as Roundup is American and French leftists and “far right” politicians are extremely anti-US (although they weren’t anti-Irak of Saddam – you can’t have too many subjects of regime hate I guess).
MLP might love a lot of things in the Green New Deal.
The French “nationalist” parties side more with apiculture than agriculture (except expensive non realist “agriculture bio” = organic). They ate the “Gaucho and Régent TS are killing bees” mantra and so French outlawed both, and apparently bees don’t feel better so that wasn’t the cause. Now I guess Roundup is killing the bees, when neonics haven’t already killed the bees. MLP would probably side with the MSM against agriculture and outlaw these (the pesticides not the bees).
All the French “nationalist/patriotic parties” are worshiping the General De Gaulle which gave away power to the communists just a few years after the time they were working against the French army. De Gaulle created the Sécurité Sociale with its “universal” non universal, domain specific coverage with its many “special status”. De Gaulle also betrayed the French people of Algeria and forced the army to let them be killed, in order to gave good relation with future independent Algeria. De Gaulle was as “nationalist” and patriotic as the Clintons.
De Gaulle introduced the confusion that hating UK and US was nationalism and independence and pride.
French politics is hopeless. The so called conservatives either waste their energy fighting gay mariage or they embrace mass immigration.
MLP and her so called “extreme right” party are just awful.
Anyway, the non democratic French institutions are so openly biases against the “extreme right” (for my entire life, I have not heard a debate about the change of the election system where many participants weren’t focuses on finding an election system that gave almost no representatives for a party with 15% – 30% of the electorate).
http://Www.klimatupplysningen.se Sweden where invited to french envirommental minister Brune Poirson end 2017. She was very intested to hear the information from professor Stilbs and chairman Per Welander. https://www.klimatupplysningen.se/2017/10/23/breaking-news-klimatupplysningen-pa-klimatmote-med-fransk-minister/
For about teen years ago I spoke to person working close to Sweden envirommental minister Carlgren. The women said “we don’t know and are afraid not to follow The climate agenda. At the same time our climate minister says” new scientific information global warming worse than before” in News papper.
President Macron have all information and know that climate change may not be
caused by co2.
This is The bame of The Game.
Dan
Why is a it a ‘good’ thing to spend money which France does not have (see French riots about attempts to raise the pension age because the France has reached the limit of borrowing) on a ‘Green’ ‘plan’ that will never work.
Comment: Ignoring the fact the IPPC science is 100% incorrect. So it is stupidity squared.
This is the UK Green Mob’s plan of what it would take to enable the UK to reach Absolute Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
Some Key Points:
The Uk Electrical grid must be expanded by a factor of three and magically start to produce 100% CO2 emission free power by 2050.
Free unlimited batteries. (The Green Mob, call their magic engineering assumptions such as Free batteries and free power lines a “Smart Grid”).
Green stuff can be built with no energy, no mining, and no cement.
All of the stuff which we purchase from other countries must be made from the same magic energy source and must be transported by wind powered ships.
In the study it is noted that the following will be banned by the government to reach Absolute Zero UK CO2 emissions.
No airplanes, no air travel
No hydrocarbon powered ships
No mining
No Cement
No Hydrocarbon Industry and energy
Has anyone run this by the general public?
What we have allowed the Green Mob to do, is make up the Greta paradigm which is that all we need to do is tax the heck out of hydrocarbon consumption…
… and spend a gazillion dollars on stuff that Germany has proven stops reducing CO2 emissions at the point where power storage is required.
… and this spending will do anything beyond making electricity very expensive and cause environmental damage.
http://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf
Absolute Zero Carbon Emissions UK Study
http://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf
“en même temps” progressist Macron gov confirms the closure of the historical and historically well functioning nuclear plant (Westinghouse style) of Fessenheim:
Marine Le Pen reacted:
https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/1230109024286322689
“La fermeture de la centrale nucléaire de #Fessenheim est une aberration sur le plan écologique”
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Closure of Fessenheim nuclear plant is inept from an ecological POV.
Seems c’est notre projet
https://www.google.com/search?q=macron+notre+projet&oq=macron+notre&aqs=chrome.
there’s tszoris too !