Shortly after the U.S. announced its withdrawal from the Paris accord, a global pact to combat climate change, French President Emmanuel Macron assumed the mantle of environmental crusader with a pointed rebuke of the Trump administration: “Make our planet great again,” he declared just hours later.
Now, more than a year later, Macron’s environment minister has delivered his own stinging rebuke — only this time, it’s Macron who came in for the condemnation. Nicolas Hulot stunned the hosts of his live radio interview Tuesday by declaring his resignation in protest of the French president’s environmental policy.
“I do not want to lie to myself anymore,” Hulot said on France Inter. “I don’t want to give the illusion that my presence in government means we’re answering these issues properly — and so I have decided to leave the government.”
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