This gave me quite a start. A French presidential candidate is saying all the same things I did only a few days ago (and previously, going back months)! They were my own global warming conclusions, too, not things I'd read about someplace else - so I found Sarkozy's comments to be surprising to say the least.
I have no monopoly on logic, though. Sarkozy is clearly thinking about global warming and connecting the same dots I am. When you do that, you're likely to arrive at the same rational conclusion.
For thinking beings, it's obvious that overpopulation is mankind's biggest problem. Not climate change. Not pestilence. Not epidemic or starvation or war. Get the population down to a sustainable level and don't let it get any higher. Most of humanity's other problems will then take care of themselves.
The world leaders don't want to talk about overpopulation, though. Given that it is clearly a much bigger problem than global warming, that's really SUSPICIOUS. But, if you understand that imaginary problems are more useful political devices than real problems, the emphasis being placed on Global Warming makes perfect sense. (The reason it is more useful is that if it is imaginary, then it's under your control. You can tell everyone that the problem is getting worse, or that it's getting better, as political circumstances dictate. A real problem, on the other hand, isn't under your control. You'd have to actually fix whatever's wrong in order to make a convincing argument that your policies have been effective. Fixing real problems is HARD. Fixing imaginary ones is EASY.)
That last point is the only thing Sarkozy doesn't yet understand. Or, if he does, he isn't saying it.
Here's the short article:
Sarkozy comes out of the closet as a climate skeptic
Published: 15 Sep 2016
TheLocal.fr
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.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who is fighting to regain the presidency that he lost to François Hollande in 2012, has finally come out of the closet as a climate skeptic.
Speaking in front of business leaders Sarkozy, a candidate for Les Republicains party primary in November, told them that man alone was not to blame for climate change.
“Climate has been changing for four billion years,” the former president said according to AFP. “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.”
Sarkozy has minimized the climate change in the past, but up until now he has never openly suggested that man was not to blame.
It appears the ex-president has an all round grudge against climate change.
The former president believes the world should be concentrating on the rise in the population and movement of people rather than worrying so much about global warming.
“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,” Sarkozy said.
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.
Sarkozy believes the media should have been concentrating on the Paris terror attacks, that occurred just weeks before on November 13th.
The former president must have been too busy to notice the enormous amount of media coverage both in France and around the globe that was dedicated to the terror attacks.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160915/sarkozy-turns-climate-sceptic-in-battle-for-the-elyse
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