MPs from the left-wing Nupes alliance called on Emmanuel Macron on Friday to “walk the talk”, after his announcement of an energy “sobriety plan” to “consume less”, during the presidential interview on 14- July.
Guest of France 2 on Friday July 15, MP Sandrine Rousseau denounced the lack of action on the part of the government. “It is not by turning off the lights that we will change anything”, she estimated, calling for a “radical” change.
The Insoumis deputy Adrien Quatennens for his part recalled on BFMTV-RMC that “the State has been condemned twice for climate inaction” and castigated a previous five-year term of “ecological irresponsibility”. “It is first of all the biggest who can start making these efforts”, he pointed out, linking the question of purchasing power to that of the ecological transition. “The richest 10% consume 20 times more than the poorest 10%”, at the global level, he argued.
In the columns of the daily Les Echos, the socialist deputy Boris Vallaud decides: “We have a government which seems to do but which has often pretended” while declaring that “Individual efforts cannot be enough”
“We must accelerate the response to global warming”
Faced with the risk of shortage linked to the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron declared on Thursday: “We must collectively enter into a logic of sobriety”, explaining that he would ask “public administrations, large groups to prepare a plan”. “We must accelerate the response” to global warming, he continued.
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Concretely, the Head of State recommended to “pay attention collectively, in the evening to the lights when they are useless”.