the temptation to unravel in defiance of scientific reality | EUROtoday

HAS Davos, Tuesday January 20, Emmanuel Macron didn’t solely make an impression along with his sun shades. He additionally had necessary phrases about France and Europe, connected “to independence, to the United Nations and its charter”. In this previous nation and this Old Continent, we nonetheless favor “respect for bullies” and the “science of conspiracy”launched the President of the French Republic.

This will not be the primary time that Mr. Macron has implicitly criticized Donald Trump’s United States by setting himself up as a defender of science. In the present context of rising climate-sceptic populism, whereas the American president cuts analysis funding, bans research themes and repeats that international warming could be a ” prank “the French head of state is true: European nations stay refuges for scientists.

But Europe and France, below stress from the far proper who search to take advantage of the anger of a part of the inhabitants in opposition to the elites, aren’t resistant to a extra sneaky drift. The flattering comparability with the United States can not make us overlook the latest environmental setbacks determined in defiance of scientific reality. Thursday January 29, a invoice reauthorizing the analysis and exploitation of hydrocarbons in abroad territories, “main victims of good ecological conscience”was voted on within the Senate. The initiative got here from a centrist group near the federal government and contradicts each the Hulot regulation of 2017, the commitments of Emmanuel Macron and the opinions of scientists who advocate stopping all new drilling to restrict local weather change.

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