“I think the Greens have a fundamental contradiction. They advocate degrowth without saying so. . . . But if you want degrowth, if you want agro-ecology, there’d have to be one or two million more farmers in France over the next twenty years. It’d be the equivalent of the rural exodus of the 1950s, but the other way around.” Speaking on Fox-style French talk station CNews, panelist Eugénié Bastié didn’t think the Greens were serious about cutting emissions — because they don’t want it to upset other left-wing causes.
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