Thomas Porcher

Ce livre tablit un constat sans concession: nous sommes tous climato-sceptiques.Nous sommes conscients que notre activit est responsable du r chauffement climatique et nous en identifions les cons quences comme la fonte de la calotte glaci re ou les dizaines de millions de r fugi s climatiques chaque ann e dans le monde. Pourtant, nous continuons subventionner g n reusement les nergies fossiles, promouvoir des trait s de libre- change sans clause sur le climat et utiliser des indicateurs de mesure qui comptabilisent uniquement la production marchande.Ce livre d voile cette hypocrisie et montre que nous avons les moyens de relever le d fi climatique. Une autre voie existe, c'est en r alit juste une question de choix.

"Today, in the United States, a new well is drilled every twelve minutes, and that model is what some wish to bring to Europe." Job creation, lower gas bills, renewed competitiveness, geopolitical upheaval, energy independence-such are the arguments used by oil and gas lobby groups to influence public opinion and impose shale gas exploitation throughout Europe. Focused on the American example and oblivious of European economic and legal requirements, lobbies toss out counter-truths regarding the economic benefits that shale gas production would generate. However, what they call an energy revolution actually is a dangerous "gold rush" with a single mission-intensive drilling, to satisfy the hunger for profit of a few at the expense of the general interest.What would happen if France decided to exploit its shale gas? Would there be job creations, a drop in energy prices or a return to competitiveness? Would we reach the Holy Grail of energy independence? Thomas Porcher offers an unprecedented study of the consequences of a legislative allowance of such exploitation.Based on the American experience and taking into account the legal and economic specificities of France, this book counterbalances, point-by-point, information largely dominated by lobbies, and provides crucial answers in the midst of the current debate on shale gas in France.

Is it possible to subsidize fossil fuels on the one hand, while at the same time claiming to be committed to the fight against global warming? Is it possible to promote free trade treaties throughout the world while claiming that CO2 emissions must be reduced? Can we use indicators that only take into account market production without taking into account pollution?In view of the climate challenge, the answer to these questions should be negative, but unfortunately today it is still positive. In a documented, clear and incisive book, Thomas Porcher and Henri Landes denounce this climate hypocrisy. In the last chapter, they present 10 proposals to meet the climate challenge. Instead of all the great speeches on climate, this book reminds us of the sad reality of recent years-an unprecedented development of polluting energies with unconventional gas and oil, a blind trust in non-existent solutions from the market to fight against climate change, hundreds of free trade treaties being negotiated without climate clauses, inadequate measurement indicators that encourage business as usual.