Climate crisis: there is no correlation between the level of concern for the environment and the political priority attributed to this issue, underlines François Gemenne

Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din

 

Not necessarily. When I was doing my thesis in New Orleans in 2007, a city that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I was struck by the fact that Louisiana voters, despite the trauma of the hurricane, had elected a few months later Bobby Jindal as governor. Bobby Jindal, if you don’t know him, is a notorious climate skeptic, alongside whom Donald Trump would fit perfectly at the IPCC.

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