The condemnation of the State for climate inaction, it is “not for my apple” but for the period which goes from 2015 to 2018, cleared Emmanuel Macron in a video posted Sunday on social networks, defending his balance sheet environmental.
The Head of State had promised a week ago to answer the questions that the French would send him on the “ecological challenge”. His first responses to these arrests are contained in a video of about twelve minutes.
Taking up a recurring argument from the left-wing opposition, an anonymous person, @Melvak_, asks him: “How can you be condemned twice for climate inaction while having the audacity to make people believe that you can justify yourself on Twitter? ? »
“We were condemned for climate inaction over the period from 2015 to 2018” when “France did not meet the objectives”, replied President Macron, ensuring that he had started to work “double bites” since his election in 2017.
“You are very nice Melvak to try to stick one on me on Twitter, but the condemnation for climate inaction is rather for the period before, not for my apple”, he then replies, in an offensive tone. and direct that characterizes the whole video. “Let’s avoid talking nonsense and accusing each other”.
Things are falling into place, considers Emmanuel Macron
Last July, the Council of State nevertheless once again called on the State “to do more (…) to respect its commitments against global warming”.
Emmanuel Macron, often criticized by environmental activists who consider his action too timid and out of step with a proactive discourse on the international scene, ensures that “we are not waiting for disaster”.
“We are all worried, we see the consequences of the disruption”, he says, explaining that “ecological planning, broken down sector by sector”, will allow “in the coming months” to “put more money” and ” make more reforms”.
Faced with a person asking him what measure “real, strong, decisive, which is not just communication”, he is taking for ecology, the president lists the results of his first five-year term: “22,000 km of cycle paths […] it’s been six tours of France”, “more than a million dwellings” renovated from a thermal point of view […] it is the equivalent of the emissions of the city of Lyon each year that we have eliminated thanks to all that”, “more than a million vehicles that we have accompanied to be changed”…
“I have plenty of others,” he smiles, before also listing some of the 146 proposals of the Citizens’ Climate Convention out of 150 to which he said “yes”. “We are moving forward”, “things are falling into place”.