Is a green industry possible? – Liberation

Michelin yesterday, ArcelorMittal today. While Emmanuel Macron has made the reindustrialization of France an essential axis of his economic policy, a strategy which has borne fruit, recent weeks, and even recent days, have seen some clouds darken the somewhat too positive picture. to which the head of state clings. To the point that specialists estimate that the number of creations of industrial companies would have fallen below that of closures. More bad news for Michel Barnier's government. Already faced with a tough budgetary challenge, an agricultural crisis that is rearing its ugly head, it is now threatened by an autumn-winter parade of social conflicts. Suffice to say that the debates which will be held during the Dunkirk stage of the Climat Libé Tour are timely.

What will it be about? In these working-class lands hit hard by deindustrialization at the end of the last century, the challenge on the table of the discussions which will be held at the Sugar Hall will be to think as the other would say this strategy of industrial “rearmament”, with its economic and social issues, at the same time as the challenges of ecological transition and the imperatives of combating global warming. It is an understatement to say that the Dunkirk port area, in the broad sense, is interesting to explore. It has of course benefited from national political decisions in favor of reindustrialization. But also and above all the capacity of local actors, whether political, industrial or financial, to think together about the future, based of course on history, but without fear of innovating to face difficulties, for example example that of decarbonization of a highly emitting industry. “Is a green industry possible?” we write on the front page of this supplement. Without putting on rose-colored glasses, the hope is that the debates during this Dunkirk stage of the Climat Libé Tour will provide the beginnings of a positive response. Because we simply have no choice.