À l’heure où ces lignes sont écrites, personne ne sait définitivement qui de Trump ou Biden sera le prochain président des États-Unis. Le président sortant devait, selon les sondages, être battu à plates coutures et ce ne semble pas être complètement le cas. Des millions d’Américains le soutiennent malgré quatre
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The pandemic, which is forcing more than three billion people to remain confined to their homes, seems to have come as a surprise, like a plague fallen from the sky. Most of the leaders of the states that govern us swear by their hearts that this pandemic is a unique, unprecedented, and unprecedented event of a "global nature".
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Should we be afraid? The coronavirus is the subject of all our conversations, not news bulletins without counting the sick, the dead, the measures taken by this or that government. To stop, if not eradicate, what seems to have become a strange paranoia with unpredictable consequences. Locking up cities, fencing off more
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For at least forty years, scientists have been alerting the world to the climate crisis. They have long preached in the desert like prophets of bad news. But things have changed. And the year 2019, in particular, has marked a turning point. The climate crisis is now part of our daily lives. Every
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Greta Thunberg's address to the heads of state gathered for the climate summit at the UN on 23 September sounded like a cry. At the age of sixteen, in tears but above all in rage, the girl who has become the symbol of the youth climate movement, has been pushing for a change in the world's climate.
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The European States' subsidies to oil companies have gone up this year: EUR 50 billion. Oil companies' investments in drilling and shale gas extraction continue despite the limits set by the Paris Agreement. The cars sold worldwide in 2018 will give off more fuel during
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Amazonia, Equatorial Africa, Siberia, California... The world's forests are going through a dark period in these troubled times of climate change. And suddenly a new term appears on the scene: we talk about big fires, mega-fires. The forest fires that used to punctuate Mediterranean summers seem small, derisory...
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Since March 2018, when Donald Trump decided to increase customs duties on Chinese imports, the world has been watching in disbelief as two superpowers, China and the United States, have been in a feverish rush. Against the backdrop of global leadership; on stage and in the light, a game of arms
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Amazed and helpless, the world watched, live, as beauty was consumed. Our Lady burned and it is humanity that feels a part of itself amputated. It is not the symbol of religion, of Paris or of France that is wounded. This work, from the top of its
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All they have to do is look at the news feed of their favourite social network to feel up to date. A title, a picture, a few lines of introduction are enough. When it comes to information, some people are not satisfied with much. They are even more convinced than those who are going to
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The President of the Republic today launched the Great National Debate on 15 January. It will last two months and proposes a form of response to the crisis the country is going through. Crisis known as the Yellow Vests crisis but which is broader than this movement. A crisis of politics, of
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What do thinkers think of this singularly eruptive symptom of changing times? Faced with an unprecedented crisis that expresses all the facets of anger, rage and violence, whose new faces, spontaneously appeared in the media, move the French because they talk about their distress.
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Dorothée Browaeys is what you might call a life activist. She runs Tek4life, an organisation that runs several platforms calling for the responsibility of public and economic players in the face of biotechnological issues, but also those of nanotechnology and digital technology. She is also a journalist and has been working for several years
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How weird is this first day of school! Contrary to other years, we don't have the natural nostalgia of the warm sand of the beach, the aperitif in front of the barbecue or the escapades in the forest or the scrubland. This new school year is like boarding an infernal machine that you don't even know you're in.
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Is a Liberal government compatible with ecological, environmental and global issues? Nothing is less certain. Emmanuel Macron had entrusted the most indisputable personality with the mission of irrigating the governance of the State, as close as possible to the heart of power, to the ecological dimension. The resignation of
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In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the young founder of Facebook was subjected for more than four hours to a barrage of questions from some 40 US senators. What came out of it? A mea culpa but a lot of blurry and evasive answers. We are far from concrete and precise commitments on solutions.
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The social network created by Mark Zuckerberg is used to collecting superlatives. Its users number in the billions, its turnover is astronomical, its data analysis is the most accurate in the world, and so forth. The storm that Facebook is currently going through can only be huge, planetary, apocalyptic. Every
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The world congratulated Elon Musk, the visionary billionaire and founder of Tesla and Space X, when his Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful in the world, succeeded in its wager. Reaching out from the Earth's gravity, in a thunder of fire, only to come back a little later to land wisely on our
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While the world sounds the sirens of post-humanism, even transhumanism, of artificial intelligence and increased man, of technological progress leading us straight to immortality, there is a voice telling us the exact opposite. No, man has reached his biological, physiological and environmental limits. He has reached a ceiling
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We don't look at them the same way anymore. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Google and other giants of Silicon Valley have become monstrous entities because of their inordinate size, their financial power sometimes greater than that of some states, the insolent fortune of their young leaders; companies sometimes old
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