Primary or not? Candidacy of the Ecologists or the United Left? While waiting to identify a clear strategic horizon for the 2027 presidential election, Marine Tondelier details her program. Plan the gradual phase-out of synthetic pesticides by 2050, ban ultra-processed foods in canteens, ban endocrine disruptors and carcinogenic substances in everyday products or guarantee access to nature: the left-wing politician revealed this Saturday, May 30 its measures for environmental health.
« Environmental health must be a fundamental right of the 21st century“, estimates the boss of the Ecologists and candidate for the 2027 presidential election in a booklet made public this Saturday. Defending “ la sécurité à 360° » which is not limited to public order, but includes “ability to live in an environment that does not make you sick,” the candidate for the left primary wants “Make healthy life expectancy the new benchmark for public action ”.
Marine Tondelier n'a rien compris à la « déroute verte »
This involves the global “One Health” approach, which makes human, animal and environmental health inseparable, she explains, by proposing measures on health, pollution, agriculture, biodiversity and animal conditions. She therefore proposes to set up a new “ pacte agricole“between the State and farmers, to plan”The gradual phase-out of synthetic pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers by 2050 ” and instaurer ” an agricultural transition fund» to support them towards agroecology.
Against junk food, she plans to ban ultra-processed foods in school canteens and television advertising for products that are too sweet and too salty before 9 p.m. She also wants to ban endocrine disruptors, carcinogenic substances, mutagenic and reprotoxic and eternal pollutants (PFAS) in everyday products (food, textiles, hygienic protection, beauty products).
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The Ecologist also proposes to guarantee “ un accès à la nature“, with a “ stratégie 300/30/3 » : « Everyone must be able to access a green space no more than 300 m from home“in each district, at least 30% of the territoryâ€Â doit ªtre couvert de feuillage en été (toitures végétalisées, espaces verts, etc.) » and“Every citizen must see at least three trees from home.”
She also wants to establish a green VAT, create a national compensation and depollution fund financed by the most polluting industries, and systematically apply the polluter pays principle. It plans to generalize public water and “promote time spent outside“, by developing initiatives like « l’école dehors ».
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The national secretary of Ecologists had already proposed at the beginning of May the creation of paid climate leave of five days per year, intended to deal with heat waves.
(With AFP)
