More oil, more talas, more pesticides. Less wolves, less environmental NGOs. Undermine environmental policies is fashionable. After years of constantly attacking the feminist movement, the right and the ultra -right are now pulling almost everything green that moves. From the lack of protection of land to “pierce, baby, pierce” in the US to the demonization of the green agreement in Spain through the attack on environmental NGOs in the European Union.
The ultra -right in Europe or the US “has emphasized the unequally distributed negative impacts that green policies could have” and the traditional right parties have followed them by hunting those possible votes. The result is an obvious setback in environmental measures, according to experts from centers such as the Jacques Delors Institute or the US Progress Center.
“The attacks of the reactionary international against environmentalism are not a mere coincidence,” says the former Eurodiputa, Florent Marcellesi. As with what violet, “Green is one of the main cultural and political battlefields.” Now away from the parties, the expert in climatic policies and fair transition insists that “ecology is for Trump, Milei and its European partners the antithesis of their society model because it proposes more rules of the game to protect people and the planet and they seek exactly the opposite: end with any ecosocial regulatory framework that goes against their interests.”
Ecology is for Trump, Milei and its European partners the antithesis of their society model because it proposes more rules to protect people and the planet and they seek otherwise: end with any ecosocial regulatory framework that goes against their interests
Florent Marcellei
— Expert in climate policies and fair transition
The wave invades almost any plot. It is not just lifting the safeguard to large surfaces to search for oil or gas in the US waters, it is also to sign orders to “revigorize the precious clean coal industry” in that country or decree an “immediate increase in national wood production” with faster authorizations so that the Protected Species Law does not delay forest projects.
Mimmetically, in the European Union, the European Popular Party proposed a “moratorium” in the development of the green agreement to, they said, accompany it better with economic growth. French president Emmanuel Macron signed up for a “regulatory break” on the environmental norms of the Union.
A couple of weeks ago, the conservative and ultra -right groups put their gaze on the environmental NGOs to which they want to withdraw or hinder the European financing that comes with the emblematic Life program. They accuse them of making lobby in favor of the green agreement. “They have us in the target,” these organizations have expressed.
Instrumentalization of the green agenda
The Jacques Delors Institute has analyzed the challenges of the European Green Agreement in the light of the promotion of the extreme right: “Energy and climatic policies are beginning to have a more direct impact on the daily life of citizens, so an insufficient consideration of the social aspects of this transition leads to a simple instrumentalization of green policies by these parties to gain votes.” This has happened, ”he prostates – in Sweden, Italy or Germany.
The ultra -right has presented these policies as “against the working class” and the parties of the traditional right “have imitated” this vision “as a political weapon”, as explained by the researcher at the Center for the Progress of the USA, Robert Benson.
In this sense, Marcellesi adds that “antiecologism has become an identity sign to activate an electorate resentful of their social and economic degradation.”
The PP, dragged by Vox
In Spain, “Vox has developed an environmental narrative in which she portrays rural life as ‘under threat’ for progressive policies,” explains this research published in the magazine Current History. And the Popular Party is approaching similar positions, not only by electoral strategy as experts indicated, but because the support of the ultras requires, as in the case of the approval of budgets in the Valencian Community.
Here, the Antiverde atmosphere in the European Union served to knock down the National Plan for Sustainable Use of Phytosanitary Products, which planned to reduce the use of pesticides, because the Ursula von der Leyen commission had paralyzed similar regulations. He Green Deal European is already called “lounge environmentalism” and LINCE reintroduction programs have been paralyzed, turned into a “danger” for agricultural production.
On March 21, the PP achieved, with great media rumble, to reinstate the wolves by an amendment in the law against food waste. But, at the same time, both PP and Vox tried to ‘strain’ an extra motion in the same norm to slow or hinder the dismantling of obsolete and barriers in the rivers. It was an amendment daughter of the bulus expanded by the ultras on the (false) destruction of dams and their (uncertain) relationship with the drought taken to Congress. It was rejected for only four votes.
“Although the Popular Party does not completely embrace the positions of Vox, both parties have allied to hinder a substantive green transition,” concludes this work on the crisis of the political center and climate denialism in Spain of researchers Camil Ungureanu, Marc Santjaume-Calvet and Balsa Lubarda. The analysis, published in the Joint Research Centre From the EU, he explains that “the Spanish case shows that climate obstructionism is not limited to ultra-right. Although it cannot be universally applied, the center-right parties, from the US to Austria, the United Kingdom or India, are causing terrible consequences to climatic policies.”
Florent Marcellesi finishes that “the Green New Deal or the 2030 Agenda are perfect scapegoats to explain the evils of this world and divert the attention of real problems, such as inequality or climate change. Presenting ecology as a number one enemy is part of a conscious and coordinated strategy and is one of the key engines of the reactionary agenda worldwide, European and Spanish. ”
Source: www.eldiario.es
