These ideological totems that pollute the planet


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The postures adopted by certain ecologists deprive the public debate of a true reflection on the environment. Too bad, it’s the planet that toasts!




By Kevin Badeau

Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, in Paris, in January.
Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts, in Paris, in January.
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” NOTour house is burning and we are looking elsewhere. This phrase which has become cult, pronounced by President Jacques Chirac during the IVe Earth Summit in 2002 has not aged. The climate is warming up and yet a certain number of political totems, dear to the ecologists rallied to Nupes, monopolize and hysterize the debate on the environment, hindering the search for and the application of constructive solutions.

Nuclear power is perhaps the most sacred of these totems. Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV) organized a “master class” on March 10, reserved for journalists only, led by the cream of anti-nuclear activists. The party of Marine Tondelier thus marks its opposition to the revival of the French nuclear industry, voted in January by the Senate and which should be…




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