“It is time for the government to take the measure of climate change”, according to the mayor of Bordeaux

“It is time for the government to take the measure of climate change, of climate suffering”said Friday, August 19, the EELV mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic, the day after violent storms in Corsica which killed at least five people and while more than 50,000 hectares of vegetation burned in fires this summer in France. “We trotted slowly behind the climate when we should be galloping”he adds.

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“Do not cheat with the truth. Do not see it as an accident. It is not an accident”believes the mayor of Bordeaux. “Climatologists, scientists have been telling us for years that these extreme climatic phenomena will become more and more frequent and more and more intense. We prefer to hide our eyes.”

“The ministry of speech works well, but what is expected of the government are concrete acts.”

Pierre Hurmic, EELV Mayor of Bordeaux

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According to Pierre Hurmic, “instead of being interested in the consequences” of these disasters, “we need to have more preventive management, change software and change our policies”.

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