Macron launches 5G despite opposition from environmentalists

Le Figaro

A new technology has rarely sparked so much passions,"

5G has become a staple of the political debate.

Emmanuel Macron stepped up to the plate on Monday evening, comparing detractors of 5G to 'Amish' resistant to any new technology.

Le Figaro

the government is making this technology an element of competitiveness for the country.

Its opponents, they see it as mismanagement and ask for a moratorium.

Time is running out, as the auction for 5G frequencies begins on September 29 and its marketing by telecom operators must be launched before the end of the year.

France is "twelve to eighteen months behind its big neighbors",

recalls the Ministry of the Economy.

Le Figaro

Emmanuel Macron, it's happy, has decided to ignore the fear merchants,

and to deploy, finally, the Internet technology of the future in France.

The findings of a report commissioned to the most respectable health authorities so authorize clear: contrary to what we are serine

Le Figaro, exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with 5G, largely below the thresholds regulations, will not endanger anyone.

However, staying away from this technological revolution for longer is likely to seriously harm the health of the country.

What is interesting in the debate around 5G is that it testifies to the emergence of a critical reflection on technical progress

La Croix.

The questions asked by those asking for a moratorium on this fifth stage of mobile telephony deployment are legitimate

: impact on the consumption of energy and rare minerals, possible consequences for health, real usefulness of the services which could be developed with 5G… The answer to these questions is certainly not simple.

And it is undoubtedly very late to ask them.

But,

La Croix, it is unfortunate to dismiss them out of hand as Emmanuel Macron did on Monday, ironically about the "Amish model".

It is necessary to reflect on technological developments.

This was also the vocation of the Citizen's Climate Convention, desired by the Head of State.

This body, it should be noted, had advocated a moratorium on 5G.

Proposal that Emmanuel Macron had not rejected

Without immediately opposing a 'niet' to 5G, many questions nevertheless deserve to be asked, calmly and, on both sides, without an oukase.

Its environmental impact first;

its social utility;

the priority to cross this course when it is already necessary to put an end to the white areas;

its sovereignty and security issues;

its health risks.

Emmanuel Macron, Monday evening, had a good time calling for an "informed debate".

He is off to a good start.

To set the framework

Liberation, perhaps it would have been necessary to avoid from the outset to side with France "of the Enlightenment" against the proponents of the "return to the oil lamp" (in his own words) .

Amish Council.

Sud-Ouest, "

Emmanuel Macron had yet promised to turn his tongue seven times in his mouth to refrain from one of those little sentences that made him immediately arrogant or contemptuous.

5G got the better of this wishful thinking.

[…] Compare the detractors of this technology to the Amish, a non-violent religious community that still lives as it did in the 19th century, in the time of the horse and the candle.

Should a president say that?

Unless he is already campaigning for his re-election ...

La Charente Libre

Emmanuel Macron attacks violently because the landscape is emerging more clearly twenty months from the presidential election and six months from the regional.

The majority seek to create with the Modem and others, a "common house" built on a liberal-centrist bloc.

All after having started his vampirization of the national-conservative bloc, by going to seek it on authority and insecurity, summarized in "the savage" taken up by Gerald Darmanin.

There also in the right Sarkozyst strategy.

Macron-compatible Republicans, already very present in the government, are ready to plant their families a little more in order to put together another […].