She said this Saturday during a meeting in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (North), in the Lille metropolis.
For Marie Toussaint, head of the environmentalist list in the European elections next June, social and climatic inequalities “
are the two sides of the same system of oppression
”.
“
There are not environmental injustices on one side and social injustice on the other, they are in reality two sides of the same coin, two sides of the same system of oppression and destruction
,” declared the MEP in front of an audience of just over 200 people.
Faced with this, she called for several measures: a European climate ISF, the four-day week, a European rent control policy, the ban on power cuts and “
free access to the first liters of 'water
".
While his first meeting, in December in Paris, had attracted attention for his “booty therapy” session, a sort of butt dance, this second meeting was more sober.
This time it was a chantsigne performance, interpretation of a song in sign language, which preceded Marie Toussaint's speech.
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The "
worst environmental injustices
", as listed by the MEP, each have a strong social aspect, whether it is the "
sacrifice of the health of travelers
", the "
abandonment of workers' lives
" or of “
the physical and mental exhaustion of the most precarious
”.
“
The collapse of biodiversity and the field of social ruins are the result of capitalism blinded by excessive financialization
,” she insisted.
She also reacted to “
a campaign where the hardest blows come from the left
”, believing that “
verbal excesses add to the unhappiness of the world
”.
“
I will not participate in the war of the left
,” she clarified, “
I have no enemy on the left, I refuse to have one
.”
Several guests illustrated the link between climate and precariousness, like Sue Ellen Demestre, who lives in a polluted Traveler reception area between a concrete plant and a brickworks, and Pierre Pluta, ex-worker of the Dunkirk shipyards, who testified to the ravages of asbestos, he who suffered from lung disease after working in toxic clouds from 1963 to the closure of the shipyards in 1987.