“Is the airplane or the sand yach” is the contemporary version of the alternative “nuclear or the candle”? The parallel recalls that our time does not have the monopoly of coarse arguments, in particular on energy issues.
According to Christophe Galtier and Kylian Mbappé, inviting footballers to move on rails rather than in the air manifestly is a joke. It didn’t take more to ignite kerosene whose scent has been floating on public debate since the billionaire jets have been tracked.
The Paris-Saint-Germain star coach and striker (PSG) can hardly argue clumsiness: the turmoil dated the day before, and the first said he was expecting the question. Their hilarity betrays a very poorly managed communication and an unconsciousness which precisely constitutes the node of the problem.
Either our friends do not see this problem, which is embarrassing after such a summer, or they think they do not have to contribute to its solution. In both cases, they did not steal the reproach of being “above ground” – at 10,000 meters above sea level. Tuesday evening, after the Champions League match against Juventus, Christophe Galtier recognized “a joke of bad taste on a very sensitive subject”, while considering not having to apologize and assuring that Paris-Saint- Germain did not take the subject lightly.
His initial reaction is only a symptom and an involuntary admission. Where the hyper-rich people implicated for their frantic use of private flights remain discreet, our footballers have set foot in the dish by compromising the whole jet set: we can no longer boast of having a delay.
Should it be regretted that debates as vital as that on climate change can not develop without starting from apparently derisory controversy, at the risk of dissolving it? We can conversely estimate that these controversies, which do not arise anywhere, can have virtues.
Let us take the arguments opposed by the most zealous Parisian supporters. They hold in three points: the practical difficulties are insurmountable; The problem is elsewhere; Their club serves as a scapegoat. Let’s see that. On the last point, PSG simply pays the ransom of its media overexposure, which it generally does not have to complain.
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