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Emmanuel Macron Calls For International Moratorium On Deep Sea Mining As Critics Slam His Silence On Other Issues
The impassioned speech of the French President Emmanuel Macron to declare the formation of a coalition of 33 countries for a moratorium on...
“Security of French citizens in the streets should come first,” one comment read-a living testimony to how these lofty environmental goals have become empty rhetoric to those whose immediate consciousness is filled with more established chunks of everyday safety. He ran roughshod over this idea by saying: “It’s obscurantism to exploit before we’ve begun proper exploration.” Plans to have his coalition prohibit commercial activities in the deep seas until such time when knowledge in science is equal to interests in economic matters or vice versa. One critic succinctly summed up the situation: “You pretend not to understand…it’s cowardice and electioneering.” Hence the successful deep sea mining moratorium will have to wait the fallout in French public opinion that Macron should tend to first.
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