AN ECOLOGICAL DEMAGOGICAL TURN

AT EMMANUEL MACRON

A symbolic visit supposed to initiate the ecological shift of its five-year term but devoid of any new announcement.

In the early hours of the morning, the President of the Republic crossed the Mer de Glace for a long time. In a dark blue ski suit, he listened to the terrible climate inventory:

the ice is shrinking eight to ten meters per year, about two kilometers since 1850.

The glacier has lost 120 meters in thickness in a century. The most spectacular illustration of the impact of global warming in France.

In front of the alternation of gray rocks and bright blue ice, Emmanuel Macron lets go:

“I never imagined a cast so fast, it's impressive.

We realize how the non-decisions made it happen ”. "The glacier makes the invisible visible," notes glaciologist Luc Moreau.

"Climate emergency"

At the end of the morning, Emmanuel Macron delivered a fiery speech in Chamonix on the climatic "emergency", "the fight of the century" according to him. He said he felt here "our own vulnerability, the fragility of this landscape that was thought to be irremovable".

"We have to demonstrate that this strategy is compatible with economic progress because it is the strategy I believe in," he added.

Without a new announcement, he drew up the table of actions that he linked to ecological objectives, citing the revitalization of city centers to fight against urban sprawl, the law on recycling or even creation, announced the day before, new natural parks, including to protect Mont-Blanc.

biodiversity

In his speech Thursday, he said that the "fight for biodiversity is inseparable from the fight against global warming".

Some 60% of wild animals have disappeared in the past 50 years, the species disappear at a rate 1000 times higher than the rate of natural extinction, said Emmanuel Macron who also launched for the occasion the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) .

With this trip, Emmanuel Macron wishes to make ecology one of the two priorities for his end of his five-year term, which is mired in pension reform. To open this chapter, he chaired an Ecological Defense Council on Wednesday at the Elysée Palace. The subject is unavoidable, including in the ballot boxes one month before the municipal elections.

Limit traffic

Emmanuel Macron was to have lunch in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains with local elected officials who heard him questioning the pollution in the Arve valley, caused by the passage of too many heavy goods vehicles and heating with wood.

On the spot, a demonstration against this pollution and the pension reform gathered 250 people, but it was dispersed before the arrival of Emmanuel Macron.

"Come to cry in front of the Mer de Glace when the agreements of the climate conferences are not respected and that the greenhouse gas emissions increase, it is parade, it is com '", tanced in the procession Pierre Delpy, energy advisor in an association.

An ecological turn more than demagogic ...... for the liberal convinced that he is !!!