Return of the marches for the climate in France from this Saturday, March 12. Watchword: ” Look-up (looks up) is a reference to the movie ” don’t look up by Adam McKay, which addresses climate denial. The message is addressed in particular to political leaders, because we must act quickly to limit global warming. But on the eve of the first round of the French presidential election, this theme is one of the major absentees from this campaign.
Among the candidates for the presidential elections, some take the climate issue more seriously than others: there are those who talk about it and those who don’t talk about it, analyzes Anthony Latier, political service. First of all there are the good students, in the forefront of which obviously the ecologist Yannick Jadot, whose entire program revolves around the fight against global warming and the need to reduce France’s carbon footprint by 55% by 2030.
” brake “climate change is also what l’Insoumis advocates Jean-Luc Melenchon. For this, he relies on the ecological planning “. It is up to the State and not to the market to implement the transition.
Far-right climate change skepticism
For other candidates, climate change is an economic opportunity. Representative of the Republicans, Valerie Pécressewants to invest in research in order to recreate added value ” and of ” win the race against climate change “. On his side, Emmanuel Macron has not yet unveiled its program, but for him it is technological progress that will make it possible to meet the climate challenge. These two candidates want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but economic growth remains the priority for them.
For other candidates, ecology is not really a concern, this is the case on the far right. Marine Le Pen is beginning to take an interest in it, but the words climate, ecology, biodiversity or environment do not appear in her 22 measures for 2022. As for Eric Zemmour, he wonders about the reality of climate change while considering that it’s necessary ” reinventing a right-wing, rooted ecology “. For him, ecology was ” taken hostage by the extreme left “. Common priority of these two candidates: the dismantling of wind turbines, which provide renewable energy.
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