Anne de Guigné: "The fight for the climate is not a class struggle"

The report by economists Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz (1), published last week, puts on the table the subjects that annoy. Turning his back on diminishing daydreams, he says that the climate transition is within reach, provided it is organized and pays a heavy financial price. While the critics of the market economy system try to confiscate the debate, this work puts the climate challenge back on its proper dimension: an essential operation but very demanding in terms of changing behaviour and financing.

The comments focused on a recommendation of the opus: the creation of an exceptional tax for the wealthiest. Welcomed by the left, decried by the right, the proposal has revived the debate, muted for a few weeks, on the taxation of the rich. By universal definition, however, the climate question deserves more height than the swamps of the class struggle. Unless a technology suddenly emerges...

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