Be careful! One train can hide another. The warning is well known on the platforms of SNCF stations. Should we leave a train, who left from Ukraine may kill us, hide another which takes us towards the collapse of living conditions on earth, a certain collapse if we are still starting to act? From the latest report from the recently published IPCC – a rather frightening report -, we haven’t talked much. In what follows, we want to help break this relative silence.
February 2027. President Macron cannot be a candidate for a third term; The Constitution prohibits him. Could it be a relief for him? Not that during his second five -year term the French heckled him as during the first, nor that a new epidemic has declared himself. But during this second five -year term, nature was becoming more and more aggressive, as in response to the multiplication of human aggressions against it. Under these conditions that can still mean governing?
This second five -year period was indeed a litany of “We have never seen that”. A drought in the spring and summer 2024, actually unprecedented, brought back the yields of major cultures to the levels before the Second World War. The heat wave has reached in the east of the country an intensity that was believed to be reserved for India and Pakistan. The Landes de Gascogne forest has experienced a fire tsunami, comparable to what has become routine in California.
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The year 2025 was relatively calm but winter 2026 showed that the repertoire of nature is extended. The Atlantic coast has always experienced storms, if necessary, but never beforehand as they are known on the other side of the ocean. The coasts of Normandy have particularly suffered: floods of water and plastic waste in Deauville and Le Havre; In Etretat, the hollow needle of Arsène Lupine and his neighbor the ark were carried away.
The disappointment for cereal trees in 2024 was brutal. For cattle breeders it is more insidious. The massacre of bees by pesticides of the neonicotinoid family has been widely commented. The collapse of beetle populations – as with many other insects, biodiversity damage is no less painful than climate change – on the other hand only late attracted attention, despite the extent of the effects of their disappearance. A cow produces an average of five tonnes of excrement annually; Spread on the ground this covers five tennis courts. The beetles deal with the problem with remarkable efficiency by decomposing excrement, transforming them into fertilizers that they even take the trouble to bury. No more beetles: the droppings are then only an unmanageable pollution.
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