“We are in a logic of mutation, not of breaking up and breaking down.
When he says that, the deputy (LR) of Haut-Rhin Raphaël Schellenberger evokes the proposals of the right to decarbonize industry and transport: double rail freight by 2030, bet on biofuels in road transport and aviation, to make France, via an 11 billion euros plan, the world leader in hydrogen.
The precept also applies to the right's relation to the ecological question.
If the Republicans will hold a convention on global warming this Tuesday, they will not promise the big green evening.
Pragmatic and achievable objectives, whose adversaries point out the lack of ambition, will be presented.
Regardless, the goal for LR is to show that by choosing global warming as the theme of their second convention, a week after the authority of the State, they have grasped the importance of the subject in public opinion (a food convention should also be organized someday).
And above all that in their eyes, the defense of the environment and economic growth must go hand in hand, unlike ecology based on “degrowth” that EELV would defend.
"Leaving nuclear power is counterproductive"
“If we wanted to meet the objectives of the Paris climate agreements in 2050 via degrowth, we would have to remain confined for… thirty years.
Degrowth is therefore a dead end, ”writes Christian Jacob in a column published this Monday in Le Monde.
"Contrary to an ecological ideology that only produces slogans and fear, let us set precise and quantified objectives, based on realities", proposes the president of LR.
Example with habitat.
Instead of advocating thermal excellence, Raphaël Schellenberger suggests “focusing on energy strainers” represented by housing classified E, F and G. “You have to pass them at least in D, without necessarily going through A”, explains the deputy, who will co-host the convention, because “the return on the euro invested is more efficient”.
But it is on the nuclear issue that the right is most demanding not to have to change its position since it will reaffirm this Tuesday the "modernity" of this energy.
“Leaving nuclear power is counterproductive”, summarizes Raphaël Schellenberger.
While France could have to suffer power cuts during the winter, the Alsatian deputy, whose constituency covers the territory of Fessenheim, ensures that "intermittent energies
(Editor's note: like wind or solar)
are not satisfactory ”.
In addition to the construction of six second-generation EPRs, LR is proposing a moratorium on onshore wind power which is "not a miracle for decarbonizing our electricity system".
In addition to visual pollution, wind turbines are "bird cemeteries", insists the elected Alsatian.
Rest assured, the Republicans do not intend to depart from the framework set by the Paris agreements whose "objectives are desirable", according to Raphaël Schellenberger.
“Are they achievable?
I don't know, ”he answers cautiously.