During the debate between the two rounds for the 2022 presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen had a lively exchange on the theme of ecology.
“Your project is very transparent.
You are a climate skeptic.
It's clear,
assured Emmanuel Macron.
I have a balance sheet.
But I want to go much faster.
We have doubled the rate of
greenhouse gas reduction
during this five-year period and launched a biodiversity policy.
I want to go twice as fast in the next five years”.
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“Climate skeptic? In no case
, replied Marine Le Pen.
You are a bit of a climato-hypocrite.
Besides, maybe that's why people don't believe in your desire to solve all these problems.
I'll tell you why they're right.
You are the worst of punitive ecology.
You have accompanied things of great violence for the lower classes.
(..) All this punitive ecology is useless and creates suffering and aggravates situations of fragility because it always falls on the same people, those who do not have the means
, ”she adds.
And to conclude:
"Yes to the transition but over time, but much slower than what is imposed on the French to be able to enable them to cope".