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Wind turbines, cars, agriculture... how ecology widens the gap between rural and urban

2022-12-29T14:21:15.655Z


ECOLOGY AND POLITICS, IGNITION (4/4) - As the ecological transition accelerates, the risk of a divide between cities and the countryside increases. Politicians are trying to win back the heart of a France that often claims to be forgotten.


At the wheel of his car, Pierre Chasseray roams the roads.

This year, the general delegate of the “40 million motorists” association has given himself a new mission.

After having fought the 80 km / h wanted by Édouard Philippe and the increase in the carbon tax, he now has to show the "

inconsistencies

" of the "ZFE", in the hope of stopping their implementation.

Scheduled for 2025, these low-emission zones must restrict the access of certain polluting vehicles to around forty French cities.

A real "

social time bomb

", for those who call themselves "

whistleblower

".

You are going to prevent people from taking their car, how do you expect it to go well?

“, he asks.

Pierre Chasseray also sees in it “

another

example of an ecology at the heart of cities, far removed from the reality of everyday life

”.

This daily life is that of a France which considers itself increasingly ignored as the ecological transition accelerates – this one…

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Source: lefigaro

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