“Unlike some AgroParisTech graduates, we students believe in science and progress”

Call on the initiative of Fiona Idda, Jacques Smith and Rémy Perrad, UNI national delegates and already co-signed by two hundred young people.

Since last week, a video has been making the rounds on social networks.

During the graduation from the prestigious AgroParisTech school, eight students took the floor and the assembly witnessed a real “

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Deserting their school, accused of perpetuating “

” and supporting

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Deserting their future profession which would lead to “

” and which would serve nothing but capitalism.

Innovation, sustainable development, research, no, they don't believe in it.

According to them, the agri-food industry is even responsible for manufacturing prepared meals and chemotherapy designed to treat the diseases they cause.

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So what do they offer?

By listening to their journey, we learn that one of them has been living in the ZAD of Notre Dame des Landes for two years, another is an activist for the extremist collective "les uprisings of the Earth" advocating political violence, yet another participates in a collective and subsistence farming project.

By brandishing the climate emergency, these young activists are advocating a radical and violent decline, steeped in Marxism, decolonialism and Wokism, a total and profound questioning of everything that makes up our society and how it works.

This is to deny the benefits and the immense advances that this much decried "system" has allowed us to accomplish.

Technical progress such as the book and the printing press have allowed culture to spread to everyone and to eradicate illiteracy in a large part of the world.

Our educational system is developed and access to higher education is no longer an exception.

Our advances in medicine have made it possible to cure diseases that were once incurable and to considerably extend life expectancy.

Thanks to the numerous industrial innovations and then to the various technological infrastructures, the standard of living has increased spectacularly in our countries and the entire population has access to a rich and diverse range of services.

The company has paid for the training of these young graduates so that they become engineers who find solutions to the problems that the world will encounter tomorrow.

The petitioners

Progress, innovation and research have proven in history that they can improve the lives of all in a logic of growth.

The foundations essential to the production of wealth are the values ​​of merit, work, effort, these same values ​​that the grandes écoles, from which these young militant graduates come, must embody.

To meet the challenges of tomorrow, the younger generations must receive training of excellence.

AgroParisTech is one of these great public schools, strategic and of excellence.

The company has paid for the training of these young graduates so that they become engineers who find solutions to the problems that the world will encounter tomorrow (on average, the training of an engineer costs the State 25,000 euros per year).

Adorning themselves with altruism and good conscience, these young AgroParisTech graduates actually fall into selfishness, deserting the service of the common good to which they were destined.

The petitioners

Adorning themselves with altruism and good conscience, they actually fall into selfishness, deserting the service of the common good to which they were destined.

So, all of us, university students, school students, young workers, want to show that we do not believe in the model of society advocated by these activists.

We do not want to take the climate and ecology as pretexts to justify a total decrease and a deadly civilizational regression.

We do not want equality in absolute poverty.

We do not believe that innovation is there to serve an oppressive capitalism.

We do not want a woke and decolonial society, which would like to destroy all common heritage and all past.

Faced with the selfish desertion of these activists, we call for responsibility and commitment to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

We are the youth of France who believe in technical progress, in innovation, in useful research, who believe in growth and the production of wealth benefiting all.

We are the youth of France who are trained in universities and colleges in order to be ready to build the world of tomorrow.

We must commit ourselves and not shy away from our responsibilities in order to serve the general interest and the common good.

The petitioners:

Jacques Smith