1/ Never seen since the Second World War
Amid the litany of bad news and disasters arising in the wake of the war in Ukraine and the post-Covid world, here comes a crisis that could almost go unnoticed - harmless even.
However, its scale makes it historic since such a situation has not been observed since… the Occupation and the post-war period.
A time when throwing waste paper in the trash was punishable by fine and when straw was used as a substitute for wood.
In the 1950s, researchers experimented with making paper pulp from potato haulms and vine shoots.
In September 1945, in the newspaper
La Champagne,
readers are even warned not to be surprised to receive election leaflets in one and the same envelope - the shortage is so widespread that it is becoming a topical issue in the press and affects all aspects of the daily life of French.
If the current crisis has not yet reached that level, it remains - from…
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