More than a month after their fellow AgroParisTech students publicly called for them to “flee the ‘destructive’ jobs” promised to them, young Polytechnique graduates took advantage of the June 25, 2022 graduation ceremony to show their desire to give “greater importance to environmental issues”.
“Open up more to know-how”
One thus affirmed that it was “urgent to agree to give up our small comfort, a comfort certainly reassuring, but deleterious”. Another felt that “as someone in a high-level position, my potential for environmental harm is likely to be much higher than average.”
Finally, a third proposes to “open up more to know-how which our generation is the first not to have inherited at all: market gardening, mechanics, construction, care for others, craftsmanship, all those things that dirty our hands in repairing and building rather than destroying and alienating”.
Discover their statements in this video from our partner Brut.