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"As human beings, we have a particular responsibility to protect our environment and the planet on which we live. Therefore, the fact that we should be reflecting on these issues together is not necessarily unusual.
As ever, though, the ideological assumptions hidden behind Parliament’s resolutions are difficult to accept. They include the culpability of man, especially in the West; the alleged need for proper international governance; the aspiration to reduce growth; and the encouragement of international migration through the creation of the concept of ‘climate refugees’. Those assumptions are, strangely, at times incompatible with other dogmas or principles that you also defend: for example, the complete liberalisation of world trade, which, by definition, results in a huge increase in international transport, with all that that entails in terms of increased pollution and fuel consumption. We never hear anything about relocalising production, creating short supply chains, protecting European countries’ food self-sufficiency and industrial autonomy, and so on.
It is clear that a globalised, finance-dominated ultraliberal economic trade system is incompatible with any concerns other than purely economic and financial ones."@en1
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