I was told "No". Here is why I'm continuing.
A short while ago, I received a response regarding my project from the highest authorities of the French Republic. A negative response. My first reaction wasn't discouragement, but a sense of certainty: they hadn't read it. They hadn't seen it. They hadn't understood the systemic vision behind the idea. And this experience, far from defeating me, has reinforced the conviction that has driven me from the very beginning.
We live in a world that pushes us to give up at the first hurdle. A world where it's easier and more gratifying to spend an hour scrolling through absurd videos on your phone than to dedicate that same hour to an arduous task with an uncertain outcome.
It is the cult of the instantaneous, the trivial, and of entertainment.
Yet, great breakthroughs, real changes, are never born of ease. They are born of an obsession. Of an idea that lives within you, screaming that this is the right path, even when everyone tells you otherwise. It is an internal dialogue where your conviction must be stronger than the outside noise.
My project for a Financial Transaction Tax for the climate was born from this conviction. This is not a personal quest for glory. On the contrary, my own person takes a backseat, because the idea itself is what matters most.
It matters most because it offers a beneficial solution for humanity: a fair, stable, and massive funding mechanism for the greatest threat of our time, while also stabilizing a financial system that is in dire need of it.
So yes, I was told "no". But this "no" is merely a reflection of a system that struggles to accept ideas that would transform it to its core.
Today, by registered mail, I have reaffirmed my position and the validity of my project. Because I believe there are ideas that deserve to be supported, not for the person carrying them, but for the potential they hold.
My fight is not to convince for my own sake, but to convince for ours. And for that, I will not give up. I will go elsewhere, I will knock on other doors, until logic and the common good prevail over inertia.