Christèle recently had some intuition with her post on air pollution, right before a peak of higly concentrated, and notably toxic, carbon particles (among other notorious pollutants) which lead the french government to take some measures against massive car use in most polluted french cities. Some started diluting the problem, arguing about « foreign » pollution imported…
Intensive cattle farms get as much as 15% calves mortality during the first weeks*. Animal medicine is a powerful industry. As for human health, it’s far more profitable to use conventional drugs (Paul Polis says « chemotherapy ») than searching for causes and investigating the environment. Let’s not kill the golden eggs goose. However, it’s easy for…
What a strange creature, the « Invisible Hand », invented by Adam Smith. Some claim they can talk to god, but no one controls the market rules. The market, as a concept, doesn’t come to the appointments that have been agreed with it. « Catch me if you can », the market hides and takes the french leave. No way…
It was just a few days ago: while the USA were « enjoying » springtime in Anchorage, Alaska (+11°C) and freezing from Chicago down to New Orleans (-5°C), winter made a shy arrival in Europe (probably 4 or 5 weeks after schedule). Further South-East, in Sochi, the Olympic show could start. No doubt Vladimir, top project manager, would make…
Listening to some observers of our modern society, we tend to quickly give up and hide away. We’d rather protect ourselves from some truth that are too hard to admit! Some habits, some dogmas deep inside us, sometimes from our early days, are so customary that it seems impossible to live without them. – « I…
The excessiveness of globalized economy, hordes of giant container ships, flows of raw materials, goods and large scale services, its « historical » impact on the environment and side effects on health and labour, starts hitting our consciousness. Europe is probably the most advanced continent in terms of social and environmental protection so far. Though it’s far from…
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