The ban on private jets, which environmentalists will lead on their day set aside for the Assembly on April 6, aims to “bring the rich back to Earth” by making them contribute to the ecological transition, Julien MP argued on Thursday Bayou.
“This is the measure that penalizes the fewest people but produces the maximum effects for the climate and the atmosphere,” argued the ecologist at a press conference, who will present a bill together with his colleague Christine Arrighi.
Giving “consent to general effort”
The two elected officials listed the “dizzying figures” of the impact of private jets, with which, for each passenger, “a trip contaminates ten times more than a passenger plane.” “We have people who fly Cannes-Nice in the summer to avoid traffic jams on the coast,” lamented Christine Arrighi.
“The traffic ban for a person who has not been able to replenish his diesel is much more restrictive than forcing the ultra-rich to take first class on a TGV or business class on a plane,” Julien Bayou alleged.
“So you are really bringing the rich back to Earth and making them accept the overall effort” of ecological transition, he continued, believing that most MPs would be ready to vote for his text to “send a different signal to the hard on the weak.” after the unemployment insurance and pension reforms.
The prohibition would affect “non-scheduled passenger air transport services not subject to commercial exploitation”, as well as non-scheduled public air transport services “whose number of passengers is less than sixty”.
A parliamentary niche for a limited time
This text will appear in fifth position in the environmental “parliamentary niche”, the group’s president, Cyrielle Chatelain, told AFP. The order of the texts is important, the debates have to end no matter what happens at midnight.
The first text on the table will be a resolution aimed at “acknowledging the responsibility of the French authorities” in “the massacres of October 17, 1961”, when the police killed Algerian demonstrators in Paris.
The environmentalists will then propose, in order to prohibit “all forms of digital and illuminated advertising in public spaces”, establish a “food bonus” for all households of at least 50 euros per person and month, and provide “compensation for the victims of the contraction-swelling of the clays” in the soils.
The last three texts will be less likely to be examined. The government will be asked for a report that draws up “an exhaustive inventory of the terrorist threat from the extreme right in France.” A bill will call for the opening of the RSA to young people between the ages of 18 and 24, and another to ban hunting on Sundays.
Source: BFM TV
