“RN doesn’t clearly define the “good science” he advocates”

2024-07-04 18:00:11

Historians of thought and experts lead the claims, the author is the author Political Ecology. A responsive worldview? (Cerf, 2012) and Green-brown. The ecology of the French far right (Le Bord de l’eau, 2022), Stéphane François analyzes the ideological content of the proposals of the National Rally (RN) in terms of ecology.

On the question of environmental issues, the RN project above all suggests to “educate the world of suffering” of Brussels will behave. Why the weakness of this discourse on such a matter?

If this theme is supported by some French people, it is not important by others, more sensitive to the question of purchasing power. For a significant portion of voters, daily life will be difficult from the 10th day of the month. Environmental concerns take second or even third place. By demagoguery, but also by indifference in this issue, the RNs are exposed to this voter.

In fact, this political party has not developed ecological dimensions. Until 2017, this topic was not included in the presidential programs. It appears only in 2022, and then again. That of 2022 emphasizes more on patriotism and government than on science, including in the space devoted to it, as shown in the brochure M ecology, where you can explore the RN program on this topic. In fact, your plans are often very limited. Your current schedule is: “For the creation of the joy of living in France”. But how does science contribute to the pleasure of being French? This is in fact a confusion between the environment and the preservation of the simple property of the community.

RN puts forward the idea of ​​”good nature”, as opposed to “punishment nature”, that is to say the restriction, and especially to the Green Agreement, “imposed” by the European Union, has been judged against and carelessness. by Jordan Bardella during the last European elections. But this “good science” is never fully defined.

Does the topic embarrass the RN?

In no way, quite the opposite. We can even say that this group has no problem with these questions. Why would the RN seek to introduce an ecological discourse, even a vague one, knowing that the majority of its voters look upon Christians with disdain? Last year, during his debate with environmental journalist Hugo Clément, on April 13, 2023, Bardella publicly and criticized environmentalists. In fact, your voters will rather tend to regard environmentalists as “pain in the ass” who are not very interested in the economic and social situation of rural people, such as the price of heating oil or of diesel, not to mention progress the. of wind turbines that bring down the cost of housing… Showing himself, as a good demagogue, more than a populist, as the voice of the “voiceless”, of the “silent rebellion”, the RN will not be a target . its possible electorate.

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