Posted on 12/02/2018 6:36:59 PM PST by Rummyfan
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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
lol
I can’t tell from the pictures I’ve seen.
Who’s protesting. Muslims are real French people?
The one person i could make out was a black dude jumping up and down on a burned out car.
Without Obama to lead the way, Macron is having a hard time going it alone on environmental tyranny.
FakeNewsMSM is only showing Paris violence. the protests are all over the country, plus in Belgium, Netherlands and expected to start up in other EU countries. don’t expect facts from the MSM.
most informative I’ve seen (and the “Journo” is no conservative):
30 Nov: Sputnik: Yellow Vests: No Coincidence Macron, Merkel and May are in Dire Straits – Journo
by Ekaterina Blinova
The ‘yellow vest’ upheaval has exposed longstanding problems in France’s economy, Christine Bierre, French journalist and chief editor of Nouvelle Solidarité, has told Sputnik, adding that to heal these wounds, the French need to get rid of Brussels’ diktat and take back control of their financial system.
The ‘yellow vests’ protests are continuing to gain momentum in France, with about two thirds of the French supporting the unrest, according to the latest OpinionWay poll...
‘Over a year, diesel prices have increased by 23 per cent and those of gasoline, by 15 per cent. These hikes [in prices] hit those who live in rural areas and who need energy not only for their cars, but for tractors if they are farmers, boats if they are fishermen, trucks for transporters, fuel for construction workers and for heating’, the journalist said...
‘Concretely, expenses for energy have gone from 12 per cent per household in the 1960’s, to 30 per cent in 2018’, Bierre stressed. ‘For a couple with two kids using a diesel car and fuel to heat, taxes increased last year by 600 euros; the price of diesel for tractors went from 50 cents a litre to 87 cents, so a farmer using 20,000 litres per year, will pay 7,400 euros more in taxes on energy’...
‘Along with the energy price increases on international spot markets, the real culprit behind the huge rise in energy prices is the tax on energy products, TICPE (Taxe Intérieure de Consommation sur les Produits Energétiques), created in 2000, and used by the state to heavily improve its tax revenues’, she elaborated.
Bierre explained that today this tax ‘represents 57 per cent of the price of diesel and more than 60 per cent of the price of gasoline, mainly because since 2014, the TICPE includes a tax to finance the costs of the energy transition.’
‘This is a progressive tax that grows every year according to a supposed price of carbon per ton of CO2, which is to reach 100 euros in 2030!’ the journalist remarked. ‘In 2015 it was at 14.5 euros, in 2017 — 22 euros in 2017, in 2018 — 44.6 euros and so on.’
She stressed that Macron’s predecessors relied heavily on the taxation of their population to finance their programmes and lately the energy transition, but the incumbent French president ‘is, no doubt, the most outrageous.’...
‘The “yellow vests”… have rejected the participation of all political forces as such, and kicked out far right and far left elements attempting to infiltrate them’, she highlighted, adding that the movement had emerged spontaneously protesting against the austerity policies which originate from the 2008 financial crisis and earlier economic strategy...
According to Bierre, these protests ‘have the potential of a revolutionary movement.’...
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201811301070254065-macron-merkel-may-eu/
in the south of France (Pau) on 30 November:
Youtube: 45 sec: French Police remove helmets to show solidarity with the people against Macron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBsv0EzGak
The problem is, no matter how much carbon tax they pay, it will have zero impact on the world’s temperature. For those who actually feel the impact of something like that, it’s just idiotic.
the protests have succeeded in derailing the French Prime Minister and President Macron’s plans to attend the ridiculous COP24 climate talks in Poland, which less than 30 world leaders will now attend:
2 Dec: EconomicTimesIndia: Crucial climate talks kick off in Poland, massive breakthrough unlikely
By Urmi Goswami
Despite the urgency, expectations of a massive breakthrough in ambition of action or finance are low. French President Emmanuel Macron, who was expected to attend the high-level leaders’ summit at Katowice talks on Monday has had to cancel in the face of escalating protests over fossil fuel prices and taxation in France...
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/crucial-climate-talks-kick-off-in-poland-massive-breakthrough-unlikely/articleshow/66908257.cms
1 Dec: Deutsche Welle: French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe canceled a planned trip to the COP24 climate conference in Poland on Sunday to meet with Macron over the unrest.
Its the revolt of the forgotten middle class against wealthy urban elites who don’t have to bear the costs of the climate change policies they advocate.
That wouldn’t be much of an issue if the pain was equitably shared. But it isn’t and people affected by it feel their backs are pressed to the wall. Unless Macron is prepared to scrap the taxes, expect the social unrest to escalate.
the journalist spoke too soon about getting rid of the agents provocateurs; the MSM & authorities want violence in Paris, which is all the MSM is showing.
In ten years France will be an islamic republic. But carbon emissions will be low. And Juliette Binoche can wear a burqa.
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And the climate scammers will be filthy rich and able to afford to move someplace else.
An interesting article, especially the portions which show how dramatic the percentage increase in fuel costs has been, and how it has affected the lower/middle class. It’s interesting that in France, the flash point is gasoline tax for the green program; in England and Germany it is more immigration oriented. But regardless, Brussels directed government is getting more and more out of touch.
I have to say, though, that I lost interest near the end when the article’s prescription was for onerous taxes on estates, mobilization of the banks for large investment programs, and coordination favoring Russian and Chinese long-term projects. Not surprising that Sputnik News would talk their book at some point.
Does anybody know the details of this tax increase? I keep hearing he put on a heavy tax designed to heavily penalize use, but I have never heard any details...none.
In the 50’s while visiting Paris I recall a huge Russian Flag draped covering several floors of an office building facade along with a similar sized picture of Stalin. That building was the LeMonde.
Another great video getting more time is one of the riot police facing a huge crowd of yellow jacket rioters and taking off their helmets enmasse as a sign of solidarity.
Just the kind of eco-socialist tyranny we expect here from the hollywierders and others who jet around but ask the peasants to pay enormous taxes on heat.
The business and political leaders of the Western world for decades have engaged in a slow genocide against their own native peoples. Where in order to maximize their profits they have colluded together to lower wages while at the same time increasing the tax burden on the middle and lower income people to a point where not even two salaries can support a normal family that regenerates the population.
So the governments are engaged in subsidizing replacement populations that are so foreign that these substitute refuse to assimilate into the culture and language of their host countries. While at the same time economically weakening their host people by refusing to become gainfully employed and goggling up mandate entitlements. Adding to the tax burden of their hosts.
The native populations are beginning to sense this and are beginning to rebel against the elitist ruling classes.
Blaming CO2 for "global warming/climate change" is idiotic. Therefore, so is making people pay a carbon tax.
There are far worse planetary dangers from mankind. One known problem is garbage and waste products that pollute the planet. That is a huge problem yet little is being done about it. The seas are being polluted by waste, and that endangers the food chain. Eco-warrior politicians are waging wars on non-existent problems (CO2). They may find too late that they ignored the real problem which will result in world-wide famines.
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