While the fair trade sector is slowly developing, consumer interest in ecology is rapidly accelerating, as we saw in the second round of the French municipal elections last weekend. So much so that many of them, sometimes consider that ecology (favoured by the consumption of
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The coronavirus crisis shows how fragile the food supply of cities is. Because of this, some basic necessities are missing in some shops in the West, a bit like in the old days in the shops of the Soviet Union! But developing cities that are more resilient in terms of food, economy and ecology,
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While at this very moment the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is threatening, in the form of blackmail, to let "millions of migrants" head for Europe, the refugee issue is undermining the fundamental principles of European civilisation. Our societies, comfortable but full of fears of everything, are looking at
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A growing number of citizens are looking for new alternatives to their consumption patterns. They are becoming aware that this can become a political act. Because the act of buying is a way of voting economically and participating in changing the world. Alternative consumption can be a way of changing the
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The increase in the tax on fuel prices was the trigger for the movement of the yellow vests, believing that this tax weighs too heavily on the wallets of the poorest. Moreover, they consider that this tax was only very partially attributed to environmental protection. "But
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There are three political trends that are emerging in the society to come and are already starting to clash a little bit. They are the pro-technology liberals, the pro-ecology conservatives and the pro-ecology egalitarians, the eternal struggle between freedom, order and equality. Human freedom will be conquered by technology, according to the
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