As the debate on the 2025 budget opens, Marine Tondelier once again regrets the political equation to which Michel Barnier is subjected. “We can clearly see that the Prime Minister only owes his retention in his post to the fact of satisfying the National Rally”she decides. “They are going to blow it apart. This budget is the illustration of that. The most emblematic thing is the fact that it cuts jobs in schools, 4,000 fewer, mainly in nursery and primary schools where we know that everything is at stake and during this time, it increases them in the army and in the prisons, in the justice system.
“We felt in his general policy speech that he had no vision for the school, and that on the other hand, when he started talking about security and immigration, he had very specific, very concrete, very detailed to say. Well it shows in the budget and frankly, I don’t think this is the France we want for our children.”
“The ecological debt cannot be repaid”
“On the environmental front, things are alarming”worries Marine Tondelier. “I have been told several times in interviews: you green people must be happy, you have the most green Prime Minister in the history of Prime Ministers. Well, already the bar was not very high, when should we even say it to ourselves. And we knew that if, in 1993, when he was Minister of the Environment, he had said ‘ecological debt’, he would have put a new concept on the table. forget to tell you, is that the ecological debt cannot be repaid So it is not really a debt, we will never catch up! Climate change. It won’t turn back the clock, and neither will extinct species.”
The environmentalist denounces in particular the 60% reduction in the budget of the Green Fund, launched two years ago by Elisabeth Borne to help communities adapt to climate change. “They are also taking away a lot of resources from local authorities. They are in the process of chipping away at all the last barriers to the environmental and social crisis.”
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She also responds to those who speak of punitive ecology. For her, this government and the previous one are not only “punitive ecology”, “but they do everything punitive”. “We have been saying it for seven years: Macron gives tax gifts to the richest and one day we will all pay for it. It’s ineptitude, it’s amateurism. And today, who can see on the front line to correct their amateurism? The most precarious They send retirees to the front line because instead of being indexed to inflation in January, they will send our children to the front line because. They are going to reduce the number of staff in schools and that the environmental future that we are preparing for them is apocalyptic.”
73% fewer wild animals in 10 years, “this should obsess us from waking up to going to bed”
Marine Tondelier particularly mentions the WWF report released this Thursday, “which shows that in 10 years, wild animal populations have fallen by 73%. Less 73% of wild species in 10 years, I repeat it so that everyone understands at breakfast what is happening. The living world is disappearing, gradually, because of us, humans, and in French political life, even in world political life, it’s anecdotal, it should be! obsessing over us all the time, from waking up to going to bed, but we prefer to continue to protect the rich and make the most precarious pay. That’s not what social justice is, that’s not what environmental justice is.
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