Is the PP a climate change denialist party? This accusation has been the focus of a good part of Pedro Sánchez’s attacks on the main opposition party. “Vox denies the effects of climate change and the PP does not deny them, but acts as if they did not exist. Some by action and others by omission, both are climate deniers â€, launched the President of the Government on Sunday in Fuenlabrada.
Climate change has entered the political debate and the European Commission did not come out yesterday precisely in defense of the Andalusian PP, which intends to legitimize illegal irrigation in the area of ​​Doñana with a transfer in the midst of a tremendous drought and the desiccation of more than half of the lagoons of this natural enclave.
The community authorities fear that the Board’s plan will further degrade the wetland, deem the measures adopted to protect it insufficient, and demand a sustainable use of water and protected spaces, “especially in the current climate of severe water stress”, as shown the lack of rain in April.
As a Europeanist party, when it was in government, the PP was obedient to community policies on climate change (it seconded the Kyoto protocol to reduce emissions and agreed to create the European market to trade these rights). However, his political practice has fueled the idea of ​​a low-key denialism.
The last PP government kept the Climate Change bill in the drawer for many months; he got on the wave of the campaign against renewable sources, including the outlandish tax on the sun with which self-consumption was blocked from taking off, and he wanted to prevent with legal regulations the closure of coal-fired power plants (large sources of CO2) when companies electrical already wanted to pass the old screen.
His has not been a Trumpian, histrionic and not even noisy denialism; In any case, it would be discreet, only verifiable with a lack of leadership and initiative.
In the face of Pedro Sánchez’s harsh statements, his silence is deafening.
