French Green MP Calls Summer Heatwaves, Fires and Drought a Warning of Collapse in France

Green MP Sandrine Rousseau said Monday that the succession of heatwaves, wildfires and drought this summer should serve as an extremely serious warning about the collapse that is beginning, and criticized the government's poverty of response. "What we experienced this summer should be an extremely serious warning about the collapse that is beginning, and in fact we are acting as if everything could continue as before, the environmentalist politician lamented on Franceinfo. She regretted that the first budget announcements to leak out only concerned freezing the pensions of the wealthiest retirees and "nothing about what we experienced this summer.

"We are in a form of government poverty since the start of this crisis, she explained, deploring that the only notable controversy had revolved around the number of Canadair water-bomber planes available to France. "There has not been a single announcement about reviewing watercourses, redeveloping small streams, developing wetlands, or slowing the circulation of water so that soils absorb more, she detailed.