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Marine Le Pen has started to speak about a "national ecology", framing the climate crisis (which she previously downplayed) as the consequence of external destabilisation of organic local environments. She envisions an "ecological society" as an expression of "demetropolitanism".
It should be clear by now the danger of this rhetoric for all concerned about climate breakdown and far-right. Unless the left is able to formulate green policies that express global solidarities, 'ecology' will become the acceptable framing for an insular & reactionary politics.
Instead of accepting this framing, we need to challenge the perception that ecologies flourish in isolation (most don't), and highlight how ecological & social justice are interlinked. (One for @GeorgeMonbiot & @NaomiAKlein). Le Pen's speech reported here: https://www.pressreader.com/france/nice-matin-cannes/20190916/281994674194455
That report of Le Pen's speech also notes that her rebranded party has moved away from taking about immigration. But of course 'local ecology' is also a subtle way of talking about alien pathogens, which infect 'pure' France. Vichy propaganda was full of this rhetoric.
