However Mr Harvie said the government still anticipated using fossil fuels for too many future years and within society "values of consumerism still dominate".
He dedicates himself tirelessly to the transmission of humanistic values (which he says are threatened by free-market thinking and consumerism) by publishing through Albin Michel many books on philosophy for the young (Les Philo-fables, le conteur philosophe, Piccolo-philo, etc).