Global coal rush: ‘Energy nightmare’

Wherever we turn, the planet has offered a spectacle of desolation since the beginning of the summer. Farmland is suffocating under the effect of drought. Forests disappear in gigantic fires. Glaciers are melting, rivers and lakes are drying up visibly. Nature gives the impression of a furnace burning everything in its path. Faced with this apocalyptic picture, anxieties linked to global warming are rising at the frantic pace of the thermometer. But, at a time when logic would command a general mobilization against greenhouse gas emissions, the whole world is rushing to the most polluting energy there is, coal, which is now worth gold.

For Europe, a wealthy region among all, this absurd situation is the ransom of years of blindness, mixed with suicidal ideology. Lulled by the illusion of eternal geopolitical stability, sated with abundant and cheap energy, we have voluntarily sacrificed our sovereignty over…