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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, politics is about looking to the future. I therefore applaud the outstanding work done by my colleagues, Mr Seeber and Mr Skylakakis, who have actually visualised future environmental projects and environmental standards in this resolution. As Mr Seeber says, we need to seize every opportunity to help protect our planet. I totally agree with that point. In adopting this text, this resolution, we are preparing to implement and anticipate measures to combat global warming. However, and as Mr Skylakakis said, we all agree that we have to wait, given that the economic situation is such that we must delay the implementation of any new legislation that we might impose on our businesses. We all agree that economic operators are suffering today and that it is vital that we do not impose major environmental standards on our businesses again. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said: ‘We do not inherit land from our parents; we borrow it from our children’. We need to act along those lines by giving our children back a clean planet. However, we must not give them back a planet that is not prosperous and that offers them no guarantees of a job. I should like to conclude by saying that anthropogenic gases are man-made gases, with one example being the gases emitted by air-conditioning equipment. In this Chamber, it is always very cool, or even cold. I believe that if we, as a European institution, were to save a bit of energy by turning down our air-conditioning system, we would already be helping to pollute our planet less, without imposing restrictions on our businesses."@en1
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