“the rich live beyond the means of our species”, for the Insoumise Mathilde Panot

“I believe that those who live beyond the means of our species are first of all the rich and that we must stop producing rich people”declared the president of the group La France insoumise to the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, Thursday August 25 on France Inter, in reaction to the controversy over private jets. “I have no faith in the president of the rich to stop this”she added, alluding to Emmanuel Macron.

For her, the government “Practices class ecology, when he asks people to turn off the wifi but he only wants to regulate the private jetss”. “In July, six jets from large groups, such as Bouygues, Bolloré and others consumed as much as an average Frenchman emits in 50 years”, she said. For her, the fight against climate change “must go through a popular ecology” because “those who suffer the most from climate change today are first and foremost the poorest”.

This Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron cited the climate crisis among the causes of “the end of abundance” which he observes.

“Where is the abundance for the 10 million people who live below the poverty line? Where is the abundance for the 8 million people who need food aid? Where is the abundance for the 12 million people who are in fuel poverty?

Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group at the National Assembly

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According to Mathilde Panot, “there is a form of indecency in what the President of the Republic said”.