My Diaries

I just love it!

For non-French speakers :
The demonstraters’ posters say : “More CO2!” “More Cancers for our kids!” “SUVs for all” “Leave Kyoto!” “Bhopal it’s not that bad!” “Less birds more cars!” and in big and yellow, the main banneer : “CO2, I want it!” mimicking the Danone ice-cream brand Gervais slogan “Gervais, j’en veux!”.

They chant “It is fordidden to forbid to pollute!”, “We are here to make sure that the Grenelle for the Environnement [the big environmental brainstorming set up by Sarkozy and happening right now in France] is going to become the Grenelle against the Environnement!” “Yesterday I have been polluting, today I’ll keep polluting!” “Nuclear is a bomb! [meaning it is great] and it is good money for France! Let’s do it nuclear!”. They claim to represent “oil industries”, “chemical industries”, “car industries”, “nuclear lobbyists”, “GMO lovers” who “came to Paris to defend their right to sack the planet”! They had to demonstrate because, “under the pressure from ecologists, the list of infringements to [their] fundamental rights is everyday larger : quotas on CO2 emissions, fishing restrictions, prohibition to use toxic products, drastic anti-polluting norms… and maybe soon a moratorium on GMOs!!” (Late september, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Boorlo announced that there might be a moratorium on GMOs “because we can’t control dissemination, so we won’t take any risk”. It has triggered a tsunami of reactions, good from the left and green parties, unhappy from the agriculture syndicate –and agronomic industries, and embarrassed from the government.)