On ecology, the right in full "climatodenialism"

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Since the late 1980s, when a scientific consensus was forming on the issue of climate change, the right has initially been climate skeptical. Then came Jacques Chirac's "our house is burning and we look the other way" speech in Johannesburg in 2002, followed by Nicolas Sarkozy's Grenelle Environment Forum in December 2007. It was believed then that, faced with the evidence of the threat, informed by science, France, the country of rationality, could be one of the pioneers of the greening of political debate.

Ecology is neither right nor left, some ecologists even said. They thought that, like the republic, a framework accepted by all to shelter and arbitrate our conflicts, ecology would be a vast field in which the left and the right would propose their solutions to the French people's choices. Right-wing ecology would then have been a kind of