Emmanuel Macron affirms in a video Tuesday evening January 17 that the climate crisis has been "
faster than expected
", in response to those who had criticized his wishes during which he had wondered "
who could have predicted
" this crisis, however largely described by climatologists.
“
There is a part of these wishes where I was misunderstood (...) They wanted me to say that, basically, I would never have read any IPCC report.
What did I just mean?
It is that basically it was even faster than expected
, ”said the President of the Republic in this sequence broadcast on social networks.
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"
It's not very credible as an attack
", " we've
been acting for years
", pleaded the head of state, who nevertheless ensures "
hearing criticism, always
", and says to share "
the pressure to do more
”.
"
I have the feeling that there was still a lot of bad faith
," he added.
"Far from History"
“
Who could have predicted the wave of inflation thus triggered (by the war in Ukraine)?
Or the climate crisis with spectacular effects again this summer in our country?
“, had declared Emmanuel Macron during his televised wishes of December 31, attracting the wrath of experts, NGOs as well as opposition.
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Emmanuel Macron seemed “
far from history when he told us, for example, that no one could predict the climate crisis.
Scientists have been saying this for decades, IPCC report after IPCC report
,” reacted the national secretary of the environmental party EELV, Marine Tondelier.
The Head of State also announced on Tuesday that he would hold "
before the end of January (...) an ecological planning council
", in order to "
take stock of what must be done in the coming years and decades.
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