Symbolic does not mean useless.
This is what the Secretary of State for Rurality came to defend on the set of “Talk Le Figaro” on Wednesday.
The leftist radical, Joël Giraud, assures us, despite criticism from part of the political class, that the inclusion in Article 1 of the Constitution of environmental imperatives, following a referendum, has nothing of cosmetics:
"We cannot talk all the time about the environment, complain that things are not done and refuse to raise general principles relating to the environment to this status."
The Secretary of State recalls that the death penalty and its abolition entered into the Constitution even though they were already enshrined in national and European texts, and assures us that
"there are symbolic effects which have important consequences on the way we look at society ”.
As proof, the elected representative of the Hautes-Alpes puts forward his project to recognize rurality and the mountains as carbon sinks in order to compensate them as such.
"That such a debate takes place so that everything relating to the environment has constitutional value, it will help next year to ensure that the endowments to communities are significant."