French Presidential hopeful “Nicolas Sarkozy reckons that climate change is not caused by man and that the world has far bigger problems on its hands than global warming,” as reported by The Local FR.
Sarkozy was the President of France from 2007 to 2012, when he was defeated by Socialist François Hollande. He now hopes to regain the Presidency, and rejection of climate alarmism has become one of his talking points.
Climate has been changing for four billion years. Sahara has become a desert, it isn’t because of industry. You need to be as arrogant as men are to believe we changed the climate.
It’s unclear whether Sarkozy denies all human influence on global temperature—which is unlikely—but he certainly thinks climate change is less of a challenge than other issues.
“Sarkozy was also angry at the amount of global media coverage given to the COP21 climate change conference in Paris last year, that was hailed a success not just for the future of the earth but for the Socialist government who helped force through an historic deal,” The Local FR reported.
Sad to say, from Cornwall Alliance’s perspective, Sarkozy considers population growth one of the major challenges that outweigh climate change:
Never has the earth experienced such a demographic shock as it is about to, because in a few years there will be 11 billion of us. And man is directly responsible in this case but nobody talks about it.
Demographers disagree about whether Earth’s human population will reach 11 billion any time in this century—or perhaps ever. Current population estimates for many developing countries are often significantly exaggerated (to qualify for more foreign aid), and fertility rates have fallen everywhere, leading some demographers to predict that population will peak around or below 9 billion about mid-century and then begin an accelerating decline that will likely cause much greater troubles than population growth, as working-age population shrinks relative to retirement-age, making social welfare programs more difficult to fund.
One thing Sarkozy’s move does make clear—particularly in context with Brexit and the new UK government’s movement away from its predecessor’s strict climate regulations—is that opposition to climate alarmism is becoming less and less of a political liability and may be becoming a political advantage. Time will tell how French voters respond.
Featured image Nicolas Sarkozy – Meeting in Toulouse for the 2007 French presidential election 0282 2007-04-12, courtesy of Guillaume Paumiere, Flickr Creative Commons.
James Peterson says
Demographically, China, Japan, USA (excluding immigrant numbers), Russia, and Europe, are imploding. I have read that the only area where Islamist numbers are growing rapidly are in the welfare states of America and Europe. So, it is a bit puzzling from where Sarkozy is getting his numbers. Perhaps, he carries an atavistic gene from Malthus. In any case, what we must never forget is that the Serpent wages war against the seed of the woman. That war is waged on all fronts. The malcontent Malthus and his many avatars in the contemporary gene pool are nothing more than minions of Ming the Merciless, the dragon belching the infernal fires of his own damnation.
Francisco Machado says
The French are not reproducing at a replacement rate. The increase of population in France is immigration. That is the only population element over which Sarkozy will have effective control if elected. I doubt the current socioeconomic situation in France motivates people in the direction of having children.