Le régime de Poutine semble ne jamais rechigner face à l’escalade dans la sauvagerie humanitaire, même si elle nous rappelle un très sombre passé. Non contents de raser des villes entières et de tuer des milliers de civils sous les bombes, et sous prétexte d’organiser des « corridors humanitaires » pour évacuer
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A la frontière entre la Biélorussie et la Pologne, le régime dictatorial de Loukachenko monte de toutes pièces une véritable crise migratoire. Des femmes et des hommes sont instrumentalisés, utilisés comme des pions au service d’une guerre qui ne dit pas son nom au cœur de l’Europe. La crise à
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La question des réfugiés ébranle les principes fondamentaux de la civilisation européenne. Nos sociétés bien confortables, mais pétries de peurs de tout, regardent les files interminables et les embarcations précaires d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants qui n’ont qu’un rêve : une vie enfin paisible. La crise des migrants n’est pas
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Une étrange idée est en train de se développer depuis quelques temps : s’abstenir de faire un enfant aiderait à sauver la planète. Notre époque volontiers apocalyptique se doublerait-elle d’une résurgence post-moderne du malthusianisme ? Pourquoi rajouter des terriens supplémentaires aux quelques milliards que nous sommes déjà et qui ont tellement mis
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2,1 milliards d’habitants, soit près de 25 % de la population mondiale seront impactés par des menaces écologiques d’ici 2050 : changement climatique, risques de catastrophes naturelles, insécurité alimentaire ou pénurie d’eau. Un chiffre dévoilé aujourd’hui par un rapport, l’Ecological Threat Register (ETR) qui mesure les menaces écologiques auxquelles les
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Floods, marine submersions, storms, land movements, coastal erosion, forest fires, heat waves, avalanches, earthquakes, ... the list continues to grow but above all to be repeated, leading to more and more risks for populations. And - as we have just learned - six French people out of ten are
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La surpopulation est un élément de base de la fiction dystopique depuis des décennies, avec des récits prédisant une expansion illimitée de l’humanité, poussant les ressources de la Terre au point de rupture. Un regard neuf sur les chiffres dépeint un scénario très différent : la démographie humaine chutera, certains pays
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Spread over 7 million square kilometres, an area twelve times the size of France, straddling nine countries, the Indians of the Amazon basin have been recording their coronavirus contaminations for just over a month. From one region to another, cases are multiplying and could take a long time to resolve.
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"The cheetah no longer dances for Europe" appeared in Temps-marranes in autumn 2013: we were shocked by a serious shipwreck of migrants near Lampedusa. And, like the prince's novel of the same name, it sounded like a fatal announcement. Since the tragedies
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The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, surpassing the growth rate of the world population, according to new data from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) released on 17 September. These figures reflect a jump over 2010, when the
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Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. A teeming megalopolis of ten million people. The city could partially disappear, drowned by rising waters. Already today, it's sinking by 25 cm a year and the northern half of the city is now at or just below sea level.
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According to a report published by the United Nations, the world is increasingly threatened by "climate apartheid". A world where the rich pay to escape the heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of humanity suffers. In a
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The heat wave that hit France and parts of Europe last week was, meteorologists say, caused by hot air masses from North Africa. In this region, as in the Middle East, global warming is burning the air to the point of making it unbearable. In a relatively
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Heat records are falling one after the other. It would almost have become a national sport if the consequences were not so severe. According to Météo France, the heat wave that is setting in is "unprecedented" in its precocity and intensity. Dozens of departments have already placed
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There are 7.7 billion of us living on this Earth. Another 80 million every year, or 220,000 every day. Even if the pace has slowed down a little, the trend leads us to a world population of more than 8 billion souls by 2022 to reach the 10 billion mark in 2050.
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Since the beginning of December, the UN has been conducting an intense awareness campaign to warn about pollution and land degradation (#StopSoilPollution). It draws up a worrying report that could put a large part of humanity at risk. Indeed, degraded soils become irrecoverable in less than a generation. Pollution
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Following the presentation of the IPCC report on 8 October, the body of evidence pointing to massive and sustained climate change is growing. Everyone has their own solutions, recommendations and good resolutions: burning fewer light bulbs, changing cars, eating less meat, giving up
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Over the past few decades, migrants have become increasingly connected, as have the societies in which they live. In this particular form of forced mobility, that due to migration, the use of new technologies makes it possible to remain anchored in the country of origin, while facilitating integration.
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As the United Nations General Assembly is now taking place and dozens of heads of state are about to take the podium to parade and deliver their good word, an internal note reveals the incredible unpreparedness of the United Nations to deal with the peril of climate migration.
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As if suffering from heat, droughts, floods and storms were not enough, a new UN report states that climate change is also increasing hunger in the world: in 2017, for the third year, the number of people in chronic hunger
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