This is, as might be expected, the thesis defended by a number of environmentalists, in particular, of course, by the "decreasing ones", "effondrists" and "collapsologists". The Germans have long invented a word to designate this type of joy taken in misfortune when the disasters that fall on the world give you reason in the mode of "I told you so!": "Schadenfreude" , joy taken at "damage", even the most fatal calamities, as long as it is an evil for a good. According to our radical environmentalists, this is exactly what is happening to us today.
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The economy will undoubtedly experience the worst crisis in its history since 1929. Companies, especially VSEs / SMEs forced to close for weeks, even months, risk going bankrupt, putting thousands of people out of work. The government announces that it will do everything, "whatever the cost" , to defend our health and prevent the crash on the horizon "at the same time"
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