What Are France and the Yellow Jackets About

Paris is burning. Paris and France as a whole are facing protests across the nation, some have resulted in violent behavior; but, most have been completely peaceful. The protestors are primarily people who live outside of the major cities, working class people and farmers who have seen their lifestyle collapse and their jobs replaced by migrants. Many live outside the cities and drive in for work. Macron and the French government decided to reduce the taxes on the wealthy and increase the gas tax, while also reducing benefits for its citizens. The increase in the gas tax was a "carbon tax", it was claimed to be needed to offset carbon emissions. Apparently France thought the working class should be the ones to bear the burden for climate change and not the wealthy who benefit from industry.

Let me ask a question. Who benefits from increasing greenhouse gasses? Does the working class benefit from it? I think not, not in the west, they lost their jobs in manufacturing and those jobs went to India, Mexico and China where greenhouse gasses have been increasing far beyond those of the west where they are actually reducing. Does shipping manufacturing to countries that do not have environmental controls increase or decrease CO2? Who benefits? Not workers in the west, they lost their jobs. Apple benefits, the biggest multi-nationals benefits; but, not workers in the west, yet, they are expected to pay for it. That is what the French Yellow Jackets are complaining about, not paying more for gas alone. How do we know this, well, France agreed to implement the tax and the riots continue.

The Paris Climate Accord did not ask countries to pay or tax based on CO2 emissions. The Paris Climate Accord had countries agree to reduce emissions based on their highest year and neither India, Mexico or China have agreed that this year is their highest year, they all plan on increasing their emissions for 30 years and then hitting their peak. Apparently, the west is to reduce their emissions to make up for transferring manufacturing to these countries which use coal burning plants.