France is having a meltdown and riots because of global warming laws being a burden on the poor lol
Paris Accord was already a failure before the great and smart Trump got us out of it lololol
https://youtu.be/P0tYk2BIkok
"The last 30 years has seen successive governments cutting taxes for big companies and capital, privatising services and such. This loss of revenue was compensated by cutting costs in rural areas like closing schools, hospitals, train lines and all that made life there livable on the cheap. This has been an issue for a while, and most regions in France are loosing population in favour of very few economic centers. Small rural areas and even major cities like toulouse are loosing population to the capital, London, and the Rhône region, while old industrial heartlands are progressively deserted and agricultural regions survive with difficulty. Meanwhile, INSEE (public office of statistics in France) have show that living standards for the bottom 70% of earners have frozen since the last nineties, and class mobility which increased for every generation since wwII has been decreasing for the first time in the 2002 study. President Hollande cancelled the 2012 study out of fear it could engender too much contestation.
This constitutes the backdrop of the whole issue. Now for the trigger.
The last lifeline for poor rural folk was their ability to find work far from home by being able to afford transportation. Having a car, and being able to afford fuel, is equivalent to being able to continue living for most rural people and the urban poor that have been relegated to far from city centres by gentrification and increasingly unaffordable housing.
So when président announces that older vehicles (the only ones poor people can afford) will be taxed more to encourage people to buy newer vehicles, that these vehicles will loose the right to be driven on polluted days, and that the fuel they use (diesel) will be taxed a lot more, you directly attack the lively hood of millions of people across the country.
These measures, taken in the name of global warming, are seen as widely hypocritical by the poeple."