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"What the health crisis can change for climate action"

2021-01-03T18:34:36.018Z


CHRONICLE - The economist Christian de Perthuis qualifies the epidemic and global warming as “fraternal twins”.


Christian de Perthuis, professor of economics at Dauphine, would have chosen to draw a parallel between the Covid-19 epidemic and global warming to celebrate the decreasing virtues of confinement, his book would have interested us much less.

He pursues

a much more ambitious goal

in

Covid-19 and global warming

.

It is about drawing lessons from the way in which States reacted in haste to the coronavirus crisis in order to identify some principles applicable in the longer term for the protection of the planet.

The economist qualifies the epidemic and global warming as

"fraternal twins".

The two phenomena do indeed have some serious similarities.

From March, the author notes, “

the circulation of the virus becomes planetary.

In such a situation, everyone's risk depends a little bit on their own actions and first and foremost on those of billions of other human beings

. ”

The same logic applies of course for the reduction of

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Source: lefigaro

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