Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax collides with France’s forgotten

In September, just a few days after French President Emmanuel Macron’s environment minister resigned to protest the watering down of his policies, actress Juliette Binoche tapped 200 like-minded artists to sign a manifesto calling for “firm and immediate” action on climate change.

“We are living through a planetary cataclysm,” said Ms. Binoche, in a missive published in Le Monde alongside the likes of director Pedro Almodovar, actor Jude Law and writer Michael Ondaatje. “We thus consider that any political action that does not make fighting this cataclysm its concrete, declared and assumed priority will no longer be credible. We consider that a government that does not make saving what can still be saved its first objective will no longer be taken seriously … It is a question of survival. It cannot, by consequence, be considered secondary.”

Ms. Binoche and former environment minister Nicolas Hulot, who was France’s equivalent of David Suzuki before joining Mr. Macron’s cabinet last year, were back at it last week as star panelists on the main political talk show on France 2, the public broadcaster. “We’re out of time,” insisted Mr. Hulot, who is being urged by his fans to run for president in 2022. “Thirty years ago, we said we had 30 years to act. The latest report of the [United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] says we’ve only got two and a half years left.”

You’re free to question the source or the methodology but the World Health Organization estimates that 4 million people die prematurely every year due to indoor air pollution

Howdy also!

I do question the statement, because the forest fires and releasing carbon into the atmosphere, should not be linked to The Who report on indoor air pollution. That is comparing apples to oranges!

"Most of these people are poor, and live in low- and middle-income countries."

The forest fires exposed us to short-term exposure of smoke. Those people in 3rd-world countries are exposed to indoor smoke on a daily long-term basis. That has little to do with us and forest fires. I suppose if you were a fireman fighting the forest fires on a daily basis for decades then you're at risk of dying prematurely. Almost all of us are not firemen, and are not exposed daily for many years. Again, CO2 releases into the atmosphere from forest fires (or CO2 from mankind) is not really a big problem as it is made out to be by doomsayers.

Bigger problems exist, such as the fact that our food supplies are reliant on fewer and fewer genetic varieties that are susceptible to disease and pests that are more and more resistant to pesticides. Not to mention the fact that pesticides are leaching into groundwater and oceans and endangering the food chain. Mankind risks famine if problems like this are not tackled and solved. Then there's garbage and toxic waste...

actress Juliette Binoche tapped 200 like-minded artists to sign a manifesto calling for “firm and immediate” action on climate change. “We are living through a planetary cataclysm,” said Ms. Binoche, in a missive published in Le Monde alongside the likes of director Pedro Almodovar, actor Jude Law and writer Michael Ondaatje.

Entertainment industry nitwits are just as stupid in France as they are here in the US. But at least Pamela Anderson is really built.

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