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Lucile Schmid: "Psychological dynamics are rather favorable to ecology"

7/1/2021, 10:50:38 PM


INTERVIEW - The co-founder of La Fabrique Écologique sees the IPCC's alarmist report as an additional alert on the urgency to act.

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LE FIGARO.- What do you think of the alarmist report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) according to the "leaks" in the press?

Lucile SCHMID

- Two things are striking in the text as it stands.

If the developments described are consistent with the extent of the disturbances mentioned in the last general report of 2014 - global warming, extreme climatic events, disappearance of species, famines, inequalities and social suffering - it is the acceleration of these phenomena, the threshold effects caused by this acceleration and the “cascading” climatic phenomena which are strongly underlined here.

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The consequence - and this is the second fundamental lesson - is the need to seek a scenario of warming to 1.5 ° C rather than 2 ° C.

Whether it's rains, heat waves or rising sea levels,

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