Eco Tartuffe: wealth and Greenwashing

Greenwashing: these rich people who go green: are they hypocrites, are they surfing a fashion or are they really sincere in their convictions?

What is an eco-Tartuffe and who are they?

“[…] Dear Nicolas Hulot, I urge you to withdraw from political ecology to which you have done more harm in a year than all the productivist forces, right and left combined, since the 1970s, when ecology entered politics.

Of course, you are above all the product of the forces that manipulate you: E. Leclerc, L'Oréal, Bouygues, TF1 and more broadly the multinationals that finance you, but also the right neoliberal Nicolas Sarkozy.

We are not angry with you, but with the ideological offensive of which you are the most successful Trojan horse. You practically perfectly embody the capacity of neoliberalism to digest its protest and to confuse those who resist it. You are all the more efficient as you seem totally oblivious to it. The ideology of which you are the vector leads to depoliticize the ecological issue and the reflection on productivism. It suggests that the consumer society or neoliberalism are compatible with the preservation of the planet. […] "

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