Environmentalism is not partisan in many other countries, including in highly partisan countries like South Korea or France
French here. I think diving into details will shed some light.
Our mainstream right is roughly around your Joe Biden. Maybe a bit more on the right, but not much more. Our mainstream left is roughly around your Bernie Sanders. We just don’t have your republicans in the mainstream. And it turns out that there’s not much partisanship relative to climate change between Biden and Sanders.
This can be observed on other topics. There is no big ideological gap in gun control or abortion in France, because the pro-gun-rights and pro-life positions are just not represented here at all.
I’m not sure how you measure “highly partisan”, but I don’t think it captures the correct picture, namely the ideological gap between mainstream right and mainstream left.
There is also the far right in France, which is not the same as the right wing in America, but is also not Joe Biden. From what I can tell, the far right in France supports environmentalism.[1]
Macron & Le Pen seem to have fairly similar climate policies. Both want France’s electricity to be mostly nuclear – Le Pen more so. Both are not going to raise fuel taxes – Macron reluctantly. Le Pen talks more about hydrogen and reshoring manufacturing from countries which emit more (and claims that immigration is bad for France’s environmental goals). Macron supports renewables in addition to nuclear power. The various leftists seem to be interested in phasing out nuclear & replacing it with renewables. None of the parties dismiss climate change as an issue and all are committed to following international climate agreements.
French here. I think diving into details will shed some light.
Our mainstream right is roughly around your Joe Biden. Maybe a bit more on the right, but not much more. Our mainstream left is roughly around your Bernie Sanders. We just don’t have your republicans in the mainstream. And it turns out that there’s not much partisanship relative to climate change between Biden and Sanders.
This can be observed on other topics. There is no big ideological gap in gun control or abortion in France, because the pro-gun-rights and pro-life positions are just not represented here at all.
I’m not sure how you measure “highly partisan”, but I don’t think it captures the correct picture, namely the ideological gap between mainstream right and mainstream left.
There is also the far right in France, which is not the same as the right wing in America, but is also not Joe Biden. From what I can tell, the far right in France supports environmentalism.[1]
Macron & Le Pen seem to have fairly similar climate policies. Both want France’s electricity to be mostly nuclear – Le Pen more so. Both are not going to raise fuel taxes – Macron reluctantly. Le Pen talks more about hydrogen and reshoring manufacturing from countries which emit more (and claims that immigration is bad for France’s environmental goals). Macron supports renewables in addition to nuclear power. The various leftists seem to be interested in phasing out nuclear & replacing it with renewables. None of the parties dismiss climate change as an issue and all are committed to following international climate agreements.
Kate Aronoff. Marine Le Pen’s Climate Policy Leans Ecofascist. The New Republic. (2022) https://newrepublic.com/article/166097/marine-le-pens-climate-policy-whiff-ecofascism.
Yes (with some minor caveats). It is also pro-choice on abortion (https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2022/11/22/sur-l-ivg-marine-le-pen-change-de-position-et-propose-de-constitutionnaliser-la-loi-veil_6151030_823448.html) (with some minor caveats), and pro-gun-control (can’t find a link for that, sorry — the truth is that they are pro-gun-control because there is literally no one debating for the side pro-gun-rights at all, pro-gun-control is an across-the-board consensus).