Before the return of the government, Emmanuel Macron evokes the “end of abundance”, “recklessness” and “obviousness” – Le Figaro

The Head of State spoke ahead of the Council of Ministers on the effects of global warming and the consequences of the war in Ukraine. It is with a serious tone that Emmanuel Macron marked this new political start. Before chairing the first Council of Ministers, the Head of State took a few minutes to speak about the summer that is ending. A summer season marked above all by the concrete effects of global warming, involving repeated waves of heat waves and sometimes record drought. In front of the members of the government as well as his prime minister, the president painted a gloomy picture, showing “the end of abundance”, “the end of evidence” and “the end of recklessness”. read alsoMacron on a jet-ski: Rousseau (EELV) denounces a “criminal” act with regard to global warming“What we are experiencing is rather of the order of a great shift and a great upheaval”, thus declared the tenant of the Élysée to begin his remarks. “We have been living for several years at the end of what could appear to be an abundance. That of cash without cost (…), that of the end of the abundance of products, of technologies which seemed to us to be perpetually available”, he then listed. Before adding “the end of the abundance of earth or matter, and that of water”, and saying he is ready to “take steps to draw all the consequences”. Shortcomings due both to the health crisis, the war at the gates of Europe as well as to climate change, the consequences of which have become “perceptible”. Emmanuel Macron has moreover announced “major ecological planning work” planned in the coming weeks, and conducted under the aegis of Elisabeth Borne. The climate will then be elevated to the rank of “great fight”, because “there is no longer a choice between adaptation and mitigation”. The time is now for “clear and strong choices to be made for the season we have just experienced, to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, double the effort that we have been able to conduct and also transform the country even more quickly. Resisting the “temptations of demagogy” The president invited his ministers to “collegiality”, implying “seriousness and credibility in the face of such anxieties”. While Clément Beaune’s proposal to limit private jets was not widely followed by the majority, the president urged not to “promise anything and everything” and not to give in to “temptations of demagoguery”. “You first have to reason by asking yourself if it is effective and useful, and fair, and then you ask yourself if this is what people want to hear”, he underlined. On this August 24 marking the independence of Ukraine and the six months of the conflict which opposes it to Russia, Emmanuel Macron also evoked “the end of the obvious, when we look at France, Europe and around the world at the same time”. “Democracy, human rights, if some thought it was the teleology of the international order, the last few weeks will have demolished some obvious facts,” he said. And to quote “the rise of illiberal regimes, the strengthening of authoritarian regimes”. To read also “Kohlanness” in Fresnes prison: the Keeper of the Seals caught in a vice by the opposition At the dawn of a return to school which is announced difficult, the president finally thanked “the ministers who were the most at the front, in particular on the Interior or Health side”, as well as “our firefighters, our elected officials and all the State personnel who had to face both to the big fires that we experienced this summer, but also to storms and bad weather”. The Head of State also expressed “all (s) gratitude to health personnel”, and underlined the “great difficulties” currently affecting the hospital.