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Thomas Morales: "The car has not said its last word"

2022-10-17T18:12:44.342Z


TRIBUNE – As the 2022 Paris Motor Show, Porte de Versailles in Paris, opens its doors to the general public today, the journalist and writer* takes up the defense of the automobile, accused of all evils by environmentalists.


*Thomas Morales is the author, in particular, of “Praise of the car.

Defense of an endangered species” (Éditions du Rocher, 2018), and “My last session: Marielle, Broca and Belmondo” (Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2021).

Latest book published: "And now, here comes a long winter" (Éditions Héliopoles, 2022).

We weren't allowed to talk about it anymore, or even write about the car.

We were discredited, delegitimized by the bullies of a mobility disconnected from reality, relegated to the dustbin of history.

We were sold to the big automobile trusts and blind to climate change.

Reckless, insensitive to the necessary preservation of natural resources.

Diesel fanatics, nostalgic for the heel-toe on the county roads of yesteryear.

Useful fossil material idiots, incapable of inventing a new way to go to work or to the hospital, to take their children to football or to the music academy, to go to the...

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Source: lefigaro

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