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And those same elites won’t change their own lives, you know that. Oh, they’ll throw a few bucks out to purchase carbon offsets, but, they aren’t giving up their own fossil fueled travel, and the massive rise in prices doesn’t hurt them much

France vows to change its ‘way of life’ in climate struggle

Countries that signed the 2015 Paris climate accord must do more than cut carbon dioxide emissions and develop new technologies to combat global warming — and accept the need to change their way of life, France’s environment minister has said.

Speaking in an interview, Barbara Pompili [she’s a French politician, Minister of the Ecological Transition under Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020], currently serving acknowledged the importance of technological solutions such as the rollout of hydrogen power in Europe, the US and Asia. But she also highlighted that the wide-ranging bill making its way through the French parliament would “mean profound changes in the lives of our fellow citizens”.

It was “great” for the Americans and others to rely on new technologies such as hydrogen. “But I think we have an extra ingredient in France and Europe. We’re taking these new technologies but we’re going further because we’re also looking at our ways of life,” she told the Financial Times. “We’re really talking about a change of model.”

The legislation includes restrictions on domestic flights, requirements for “climate labelling” of products such as clothing to show their impact on global warming, stricter regulations to enforce insulation of buildings and measures to reduce the carbon output of farming while ensuring sustainability and promoting vegetarian meal choices. (snip)

Pompili acknowledged the difficulties that could result from green policies, but said the climate legislation, which should be enacted by the end of the summer, showed how France could find a balance between saving the planet and preserving the economy and standards of living.

Yeah, right. The French people are going to find out the hard way, and should make the protests over the planned government increases in fossil fuels prices look tiny.

They include a ban on flights for journeys that can be made by train in less than two-and-a-half hours, as well as the creation of a new offence of “ecocide” for those accused of damaging the environment.

Have fun, French people. Maybe this will be a good learning experience for other countries as to the authoritarianism of the climate cult.