QWho was the first to propose merging the Ministries of the Environment and Equipment? To strip the Ministry of Agriculture of water and forest management? To make farmers pay for the pollution linked to their activities? To place nuclear safety under the control of the Environment? To stop major hydraulic development projects? To enshrine the “precautionary principle” in law?
Today’s environmental activists are probably not aware of it, but the appointment of Michel Barnier marks the entry into Matignon of the most eco-friendly Prime Minister in history, and of a man whose struggles have often matched – or even preceded – those of the elected representatives of the “flower party”.
I will tell the French the truth about the ecological debt.
Little known to the French, M…
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