"With the unanimous support of the media helping, Nicolas Hulot is making a splash with the misfortunes of the planet. In the name of an 'ecological pact', which he wants 'transpolitical', his book and his site are successful," notes Guy Leboutte in La Libre Belgique. The author recalls in passing the links of the host, "his pumps and his works, friends and projects. Marketing and sponsorship, derivative products, lines of 4x4 vehicles labeled Ushuaia… money, oil and CO2 are flowing freely in the wake of the tele-ecologist of TF1. "
"Faced with this great media machine, we must refocus the ecological question, away from the image of the soothing world that the ubiquitous entertainment industry is building for us day after day", Judge Guy Leboutte. "We must give back their place to some massive and overwhelming observations, which weigh on humanity but are daily marginalized in collective representation." Because, for the author, the proposals of Nicolas Hulot are far from being as neutral as they may appear. They constitute a new justification for misery.
And to justify his point with a few examples. In 2002, children died of hunger in Argentina when this country with an emblematic name, of 38 million inhabitants, ensures an agro-food production allowing it to easily feed more than 100 million people. India exports grain when half of its children suffer from malnutrition. "And on a planet where food production is large enough to be sufficient for humanity, 24 people die every day from the consequences of hunger", says the author, citing the opening address of the Secretary General of the Nations United at the World Food Summit in Rome, June 000, 10.
"Hunger and misery are not due to a lack of economic growth or to the limits of agricultural productivity, they are an effect of the social distribution of resources, a consequence of social relations. Their reduction is not a technical challenge. or scientific, but a social problem, everyone's business, an eminently political question. The social question is not a matter of expertise, but of debate. " However, "since Antiquity, the elites have devoted constant efforts to disguise the reality of poverty, aimed at the governed of course, but also for their own peace of mind."
For Guy Leboutte, there is no doubt that "the friend of multinationals, Nicolas Hulot, is undoubtedly part of this ancestral lineage that is too respectful - and too profitable! - of social injustices. He works with others towards capitalism. green which will save the essential: inequalities. Nothing more. The German Grünen are already strongly won over to this movement, and with them a growing number of intelligent or cynical bosses. "
Therefore, "if we follow recommendations presented as technical, like those, not transpolitical, but apolitical, of Nicolas Hulot, the real powers will be free from any questioning. As such, they will impose all the more easily unfair solutions making the poorest pay the price of adjustment once again.We could then only witness a renewal of domination in new forms, with a renewed ideological mystification, where the argument an ecological constraint not socially analyzed would replace more or less the current and supposedly intangible law of the markets. "
And to conclude: "Such is, poor people of all countries, the new necessity that the mainstream media will sell you, such is the plan of the triumphant elites. You will believe that you are saving your descendants, but you will ensure their subjection to wage labor, a regime which has brought the species to the brink of suicide. You will think you are sacrificing for life and for the planet, but you will feed Moloch. As they cycle to work, your grandchildren, through their taxes and their purchases, will finance the jet-society, authorized carbon dioxide, of the heirs of Mr. Hulot and his supporters. "
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