Posted on 03/01/2021 1:30:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A citizens’ council on climate met for the last time over the weekend to finalise proposals on climate change laws aimed at rapidly transitioning to a greener economy and enshrining the fight for climate change in the French constitution. While some view President Emmanuel Macron’s citizens' panel as a welcome precedent and a model for more direct democracy, others say it has been fraught with disappointment and frustration.
After nine months of research and rigorous debate, some acrimonious, the Citizens’ Council on Climate (CCC) met virtually for a three-day conference starting Friday to prepare its final submission to the French government on how to cut carbon emissions.
Macron first formed the CCC to advise on climate reforms at the tail end of the “Yellow Vest” crisis in 2019 in response to demands for greater “direct democracy”.
The measures have been included in two draft laws, the “Climate and Resilience” bill and a separate constitutional bill. Some of the citizens’ recommendations include a ban on advertising fossil fuels, restrictions on short-haul domestic plane travel if other transport is available, and bans on nitrogen and other polluting fertilisers used in farming.
In embracing citizens’ panels, Macron has gone where previous presidents have feared to tread. He is arguably the first French leader to entrust French citizens with the serious business of policy-making – and on an issue as contentious and significant as climate change.
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So people who have been propagandized for a quarter century are going to be writing extremist Green legislation? Sounds like an Rx for a lot of pain.
You can’t deny the fascism behind climate change.
Banning Nitrogen!
I guess he wants to ban the air? (satire)
Anyway, nitrogen is the most important fertilizer, good bye French agriculture.
Together with banning CO2, the poor plants have no way to live. Maybe he wants synthetic plants.
...a model for more direct democracy, = Mob Rule
A “citizens’ council” sounds phony on its face.
Mthrfkrs
You keep bouncing my views
If you need to arrest someone, get it over wiff
A holes
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