Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, has drawn criticism for using a gas-guzzling jet ski on the French Riviera while urging people to use less energy.
President Emmanual Macron has caused a stir among his countrymen for jet-skiing while his country faces the worst energy crisis in decades, according to BFMTV. This is a modern take on the infamous, though possibly apocryphal, remark of the French queen Marie Antoinette that, if the starving people were unable to buy bread, the state should “let them eat cake.”
The French leader left Paris to spend time with his wife Bridgette at Fort de Brégançon, the official retreat of the President of France since 1968, following a crushing loss in the National Assembly elections that ended his hopes of a “Jupitarean” presidency and destroyed his legislative majority. He also lost his hopes of becoming the undisputed top dog of Europe.
Less than a month after urging the public to make a “effort of solidarity” by reducing their energy use in the face of European gas shortages brought on by the conflict in Ukraine, paparazzi photos taken over the past week have shown the French president relaxing in the sun and cruising the Mediterranean in a less-than-ecological jet ski.
As France has been plagued by large wildfires during the dry summer, with hundreds of acres of land burning up in flames, the scandal has also prompted analogies to another historically dubious yet profoundly iconic episode in European legend, Emperor Nero fiddling as Rome burnt.
The French president had claimed that the forest fires were “a consequence of climate change” while visiting a region that had been devastated by fires in July.
Macron’s jet-skiing vacation has garnered criticism from the green-wing of French politics despite his support for the Great Reset green plan, with senior MP Sandrine Rousseau of the Europe-Ecology-Greens party criticizing the president.
This only strengthens my long-held suspicion that he doesn’t comprehend climate change, she said. And failing to comprehend it today is illegal.
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