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Greta Thunberg accuses the EU Parliament of “ecological destruction”
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It started in 2018 with a school strike on the street and has now made it to the big screen. The documentary follows climate activist Greta Thunberg on her mission to get people to reconsider the climate crisis.
Activist Greta Thunberg criticizes the EU’s planned agricultural reform. According to the Swede, this would boost “ecological destruction” with almost 400,000 million euros. It is far from the Paris climate agreement.
reEnvironmental activist Greta Thunberg has harshly criticized the approval by the European Parliament of the planned EU agricultural reform. The new subsidy law “will promote ecological destruction,” Thunberg wrote on the online Facebook network.
Environmentalists criticize the fact that only 20 percent of planned spending under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) flows towards climate-friendly policies.
With its decision, eleven months after the climate emergency was declared, the EU Parliament backed an agricultural policy “which, in short, is driving ecological destruction with almost 400 billion euros,” Thunberg wrote.
This day shows again how big the gap is between current politics and the point “where we have to be to be in line with the Paris Agreement,” Thunberg said.
Agriculture should become more sustainable
On Friday, a majority of MPs adopted a proposal for the next negotiations with EU member states on agricultural policy after 2022. The European Parliament has thus determined its position on the reform of the EU’s multi-billion dollar agricultural policy.
The objective of the CAP reform is to make European agriculture more sustainable. But there is also a lot of money involved, as the CAP accounts for more than a third of the EU budget. The draft budget from 2021 to 2027 is now at the center of the current debate. The budget proposal foresees 387 billion of the 1.074 billion euros for the CAP. Germany is entitled to around € 42 billion.
For days there had been a massive campaign by environmentalists against the reform. Activists such as Luisa Neubauer from the organization Fridays for Future had also called on MEPs to reject the reform. 425 deputies finally voted in favor of the central proposal, 212 against and 51 abstained.
