New York (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Greta Thunberg's complaint against France was not "the most effective way" to fight against climate change and that "very radical positions" are "likely to antagonize our societies".
"I'm not sure this is the most effective way," reacted on Europe 1 the President of the Republic, from New York where he attends the UN summit on climate.
From the UN platform in New York, the Swedish teenager asked Monday accounts, on behalf of the thousands of young people who follow her, to world leaders, whom she accuses of "treason" on the issues of climate change .
Along with fifteen other young people, she filed an unprecedented complaint before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, against five countries, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey but also Germany and France.
"All the mobilizations of our youth or the not-so-young are useful, but they have to focus now on those who are furthest away, those who try to block, I do not feel that the French government or the German government, today, are blocking, "pleaded the head of state.
"When I see that we are going to shut down all of our coal operations, that we are stopping the exploitation of hydrocarbons, that we are moving, I am not sure that this is the most efficient way. ", he added, estimating that" very radical positions (are) likely to antagonize our societies ".
"I'm not sure that we mobilize with despair, with almost hatred, rising against each other," also warned France Inter Secretary of State for the Transition ecological Brown Poirson.
"Of course" that Greta Thunberg is doing too much, still judged the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, in response to a question from BFMTV.
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