FILE – A demonstrator waves the French flag onto a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue during a demonstration against the rising of the fuel taxes, Nov. 24, 2018 in Paris
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American Thinker
by Rick Moran
1/5/2018
Excerpt:
At climate change talks in Katowice, Poland, there is a lot of worried talk about the revolt by the French people over President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increase. The tax increase was a large part of Macron’s effort to combat global warming, and the elites in Poland are concerned that voters in other E.U. countries will think protesting their government’s trying to save the planet on their backs isn’t such a good idea.
“The way forward is not easy, is not straightforward,” European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič said at the talks in Katowice. “In the end it will be the people’s decision how much they’re ready to change the way they behave, how they live.”
France’s troubles were seized upon by climate skeptics to underline the unpopularity of costly decarbonization efforts.
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted: “The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters … in the world. I want clean air and clean water and have been making great strides in improving America’s environment. But American taxpayers – and American workers – shouldn’t pay to clean up others countries’ pollution.”
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