The national secretary of Europe Écologie-Les Verts, Marine Tondelier, criticized the government’s ecological policy on Friday, defending “mitigation” measures to anticipate the necessary “adaptation” to heat waves like the one plaguing part of France . “Territories are only resilient if they anticipate and we can’t just say ‘I’ve set up a toll-free number’, which is after all this government’s great specialty on almost all subjects. “, declared the environmentalist responsible at the microphone of France Inter.
Recalling that there are “climate change mitigation measures”, such as greening cities or painting roofs white, she observed that “the less you do mitigation the more complicated adaptation becomes, it’s quite logical “. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne had convened an interministerial crisis unit on Thursday to deal with this episode of heat which promises to be the most important of the summer with 19 departments already placed on Friday in heat wave orange vigilance by Météo-France.
Inflation: “The lack of ecology is always based on the same people. We have always explained that environmental justice and social justice are inseparably linked”, assures Marine Tondelier, national secretary of @EELV pic.twitter.com/xkM2QlgTnS
Beyond that, Marine Tondelier regretted that the government speaks “of ecology only to talk about taxation”, which is, according to her, “not the only” tool to “make the transition”. “Environmental justice is necessarily linked to social justice and taxation must be a vector of both at the same time”, she insisted. She called for “acts”, deploring for example that the “solemn” announcement of the abandonment of short domestic flights where there is an alternative with the train would have been the subject of “derogations, counter-derogations, re-amendments”. “In action, it’s peanuts,” she criticized.
