During a meeting between the mayors PS and EELV in Tours, in July 2020 (archives) – GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
Nine mayors PS or EELV of big cities recommend to create “green jobs” intended for the unemployed, noting that “the climate needs arms” and millions of French people of a job. “It is absurd today that people are compensated for being unhappy at home when they could contribute to the common good. It is in this context that we must open a new positive horizon and that we support the establishment of a guarantee of employment for people who are deprived of it, in activities useful for ecological reconstruction ”, write- they in Sunday Newspaper.
For Martine Aubry (PS, Lille), Jeanne Barseghian (EELV, Strasbourg), Emmanuel Denis (EELV, Tours), Anne Hidalgo (PS, Paris), Léonore Moncond’huy (EELV, Poitiers), Benoît Payan (PS, Marseille) , Johanna Rolland (PS, Nantes), Cédric Van Styvendael (PS, Villeurbanne) and Anne Vignot (EELV, Besançon), “the climate needs hands to accelerate the decarbonization of our economy and millions of French people want a job. It is only in a failing system that these two realities can coexist. “
According to them, at a lower cost than current employment assistance schemes, it is a question of “satisfying a large number of individual and social needs in various sectors such as construction, agroecology or even the circular economy” . “It is urgent,” they conclude, “to invent a social ecology that meets the concrete needs of the French and the territories. The guarantee of green employment meets an objective of general interest: to make the ecological transition by leaving the society of mass unemployment. It opens a path along which no one will be abandoned. “
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