LFI deputies believe that there is a “
collective responsibility
” for the forest fires ravaging Europe and beyond, but also point to “
government management
” which has favored monocultures, and demand “
forest planning
”.
“
The increase in the risk of fire is linked to climate change
” and “
the government has been condemned twice for climate inaction
”, recalled Tuesday August 2 the boss of the LFI group Mathilde Panot and the deputy Hendrik Davi in front of the press.
Certainly there can be an "
individual fault of the one who sets the fire
" but "
there are droughts and stands (forests) which cause it to spread
", explained the latter, new deputy and until then director research in forest ecology.
Parliamentarians presented their bill "
aiming to strengthen the resilience of forests to the effects of climate change
".
It would be a question of conditioning public aid on greater diversity of plantations, of safeguarding the staff of the National Forestry Office at their 1999 level, and even that the State finance a public research plan on the resilience of forests .
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Already in 2020, LFI deputies had tabled a bill to limit clear cuts in French forests, that is to say the felling of all the trees on a plot, seen as the symbol of a "
short-term management
" and anti-ecological.
On July 20 at the site of the giant forest fires of La Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), Emmanuel Macron announced "
a major national project to be able to replant this forest
".
Western Europe faced a historic drought in July and two heat waves in barely a month, during which fires ravaged forests in Gironde, Spain and Greece.
A third episode of summer heat wave began Monday in the south-east of France and should extend to most of the country.
