Citizen "climate assemblies"
are an elaborate ploy
by politicians desperate
to shift responsibility for
unpopular, costly
anti-growth 'green' policies
Frances President Macron
had a plan to shift responsibility
for expensive climate policies
that had driven the French people
to street protests.
And so he turned to
La Convention Citoyenne
pour le Climat (citizens
assembly on climate),
150 randomly chosen
members of the public,
to provide a veneer of
democratic legitimacy
for his ambitious
CO2 emissions targets.
Dictated by green activists,
the assembly’s proposals
have the anti-technology,
anti-population mindset
of the green movement.
They left French
president Macron
facing the same
balancing act of
trying to appease
the green mob
while protecting
the economy,
now part of a
global recession.
So far, only 50 out of
an eventual 150 proposals
have been published.
Out-of-town hypermarkets
would be closed to encourage
shopping locally.
The 5G network is to be
abandoned because it uses
more electricity than the
existing infrastructure.
50% of agricultural land
would be made to adhere
to ‘agro-ecology’ practices
by 2040.
The panel also intends
to ban cars that emit
more than 110g of CO2
per kilometer by 2025,
far below the level
emitted by most
existing vehicles.
Television, radio, internet
and press advertisements
for products generating
high levels of CO2 are all
to be banned, and those
that are authorized will
have to carry the warning:
“Do you really need this?
Overconsumption
harms the planet.”
Environmentalists
invoke the fantasy
of returning to
an imagined
sustainable past,
where
the profit motive
does not exist,
everything is
produced locally,
and people only
consume what
they ‘need’.
The French
Convention Citoyenne
had been carefully
engineered to deliver
a particular outcome.
It's governance committee
is co-chaired by the CEO
of the European Climate
Foundation, a prominent
and well-funded green
lobby group, and the
CEO of Terra Nova,
a left wing think tank.
With control of the agenda,
they shaped the discussions,
and invited only "experts"
who were climate alarmists.
The European Climate
Foundation is also playing
a significant role in
Britain’s citizen assembly:
Climate Assembly UK.
It is providing a significant
share of the funding, and has
strong links to many of the
invited speakers and
participating organizations.
Expect that group
to come up with
similarly absurd
'green' suggestions.