{"id":335406,"date":"2024-07-03T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335406"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:44:14","slug":"the-rejection-of-environmentalism-is-a-driving-force-behind-the-surging-far-right-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335406","title":{"rendered":"The Rejection of Environmentalism is a driving force behind the surging \u201cFar Right\u201d vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marine Le Pen\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From JoNova <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Le Pen has weaponized \u2018punitive\u2019 environmental policies, and voters seem to like that<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the largest turnout since 1981<\/a>, French voters chose the \u201cFar Right\u201d National Rally party in a record vote of 33 per cent.<\/a> It is the first round of voting with the second on July 7th, but The Washington Post<\/a> is already comparing the potentially \u201cshocking\u201d French election result with the 2016 Brexit win in the UK. The Guardian said the unthinkable has become plausible.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

French elections: Why is the rejection of environmentalism a driving force<\/a> behind France\u2019s far-right vote?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Matthieu Goar<\/a>, Le Monde<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After long neglecting environmental issues, the far-right party has made the denunciation of allegedly \u2018punitive\u2019 environmental policies into its new electoral weapon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The former presidential candidate railed against \u201cBrussels,\u201d which \u201cforces you, almost overnight, to change your boiler for \u20ac15,000,\u201d against the \u201cauthoritarian reductions to agricultural land\u201d and against the \u201cheartless European Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t they have as their objective the reduction of human activity as a whole?\u201d she asked, before connecting the issue to her obsession with French people\u2019s daily lives, a strategy that has brought the RN to the threshold of coming to power. \u201cIt\u2019s always the same logic of degrowth, which leads them to ban the sale of internal combustion engines in 2035, and thus deliberately program the sacking of our automotive industry and dependence on China,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long downplayed or mocked, environmental issues are now a core part of the RN\u2019s political strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre Haski, in the Guardian: \u201cThis is a real tragedy\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron is history, Le Pen is triumphant. What do \u2018reasonable\u2019 French voters like me do now?<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 I always had the naive idea that \u201creasonable\u201d people, from the right as well as from the left, would never let them win. \u2026I woke up this morning to a different country, one in which the Le Pen clan is at the gates of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can also wonder why this country, with its many assets, has generated enough anger and resentment among its citizens to produce an election result that is more likely to damage its economy and social cohesion than solve real problems. We can also question a French political elite that was so blind it let the far right prosper in large corners of a society that felt forgotten and despised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasonable people live in the cities of course, and delusional people farm the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this is true, and is being discussed everywhere now in France, among friends, colleagues and in our family circles. Everyone is looking in the mirror and wondering what to do next Sunday in the second round. At the very least, we\u2019ll have to learn to live in a divided land<\/strong> where the National Rally controls small towns and vast areas of rural France, while the \u201creasonable\u201d people have the upper hand in major cities including Paris. This is a real tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine learning to live in a \u201cland divided\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, according to CarbonBrief <\/a> this is Marine Le Pens tragic manifesto \u2014 something about protecting the standard of living:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their original policies (in French): Rassemblement National.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS: Forgive me, <\/strong>I forgot to mention the obvious, but it needs to be said: \u201cFar Right\u201d and \u201cExtreme Right\u201d, as applied to a third of the population, are just the fake labels of the word-smithing liars on the left. Sleepy voters in-the-middle may be fooled by this cheap name-calling tactic, scared of voting for something \u201cextreme\u201d. But liars are vulnerable \u2014 every time we point out the lie, they pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Macron: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the largest turnout since 1981, French voters chose the \u201cFar Right\u201d National Rally party in a record vote of 33 per cent. It is the first round of voting with the second on July 7th, but The Washington Post is already comparing the potentially \u201cshocking\u201d French election result with the 2016 Brexit win in the UK. 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