Ihe climate is not a crisis, it is a dynamic upheaval, with no return to the previous state. The fall in wild and domestic biodiversity also obeys a movement of no return. Climate, biodiversity, we are facing systemic challenges that require a transformation of agricultural and food practices, and not a technical adaptation on a case-by-case basis. When science talks about adaptation, it’s about the intellectual capacity to change the paradigm, and not about new material, new GMOs, new pesticide molecules or a line of credit on carbon sequestration, as claimed by the agribusiness lobby and the main agricultural union, the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA).
This union, which in the ear of successive governments, has seized on the war in Ukraine to question European decisions on crop rotations and fallow land, which are essential for restoring the biological life of the soil, for biodiversity, climate. The same attack against the European strategy known as “Farm to Fork” (from the farm to the fork), intended to reduce the ecological damage of the Agricultural Policy, but which the FNSEA describes as ” logic of decrease when on the contrary it is necessary to produce more ».
Forgotten, the priority given to “produce better”. Just like the prohibition of neonicotinoids, on the double pretext, on the one hand that Germany continues to use them, on the other hand that the cessation of the use of this poison can only intervene when a new poison is available – without ever trying to find out how it was done before the neonicotinoids, which appeared in the early 1990s. Or the basins of Poitou-Charentes, water reservoirs for agricultural use perpetuating crops and climaticidal and ecocidal practices which have already endangered the regional environment.
One could multiply the examples combining lobbying and facts accomplished in defiance of the law: pressure on the government to roll back the ban on glyphosate, sabotage of Ecophyto’s plans to reduce pesticides by 50%, non-compliance with “no-treatment zones”. », prefectural derogations from regulatory spreading standards, expansion of industrial henhouses and piggeries, etc. The agro-industrial lobby has seized on history (war, drought) to lead a de facto climatic and ecological counter-revolution by orchestrating disinformation about its intentions, multiplying references to “food sovereignty” and to “sustainable practices”.
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