Magali Picard was presented as a great union leader.
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For now, our judgment remains suspended. But we already know she’s a big blunderer.
For 48 hours, everyone has rightly been talking about their express trip to the COP in Dubai.
While Quebec is plunged into what could be one of the biggest labor conflicts in decades, Magali Picard was ready to leave for a few days at the high mass of globalized technocratic ecologism.
What happened to him? Does she consider her main occupation to be secondary when it comes time to go to the COP?
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I have my own little theory on this.
The COP, I repeat, is a high mass. You have to be seen there, and be seen well. Those who go there have the impression of belonging to the enlightened and conscious elite of our time.
You can guess what happens next: high mass means religion.
And environmentalism has all the makings of a religion.
Let me be clear: like everyone, I believe that it is necessary to preserve the environment, to avoid its devastation, to ensure that the planet remains viable for humankind.
Like everyone else, it seems necessary to me to make the necessary reforms to adapt our societies to climate change, and with the means at our disposal, to combat it.
But I am wary of all ideologies, and environmentalism is one, which justifies a restriction of freedoms in the name of an absolute and indisputable conception of good.
Environmentalism is no stranger to this temptation.
He hopes less to safeguard a livable environment for human beings than to save the planet from a humanity treated like a parasite.
Human beings are accused of killing the planet by abusing its resources, and should today do penance for their past excesses.
And religion, we know, is not just a spirituality: it is a way of life, often very restrictive.
New priests want to structure the entirety of his existence. And call for ever greater regulation of life.
They would like to control our carbon footprint, our plane travel, our daily trips, the car we buy, our meat consumption, and tomorrow, they will also want to tell us how many children we will be able to have.
In other words, environmentalism as it takes shape in our lives has its theologians, its priests, its guilt-inducing discourse, its rules of life.
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I add that it generates its neuroses, as we see with ecoanxiety, and even its prophets, I am obviously thinking of Greta Thunberg.
So I come back to it: Magali Picard could not imagine that she would be criticized for going to mass. But from time to time, concrete life is more burdensome than great ideological speeches. No one criticized her for her concern for the environment, but everyone wondered if she did not prefer the company of the globalized aristocracy to that of its workers.
This is what was unforgivable.