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CHRONIC. From the denunciation of jets and the consumer society, we have moved on to the orchestration of social hatred and the legitimization of aggression.
By Christine Clerc
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” Lat the end of abundance, ”said Emmanuel Macron on August 24 before flying to Algeria to buy gas there. And we thought we heard “stop growth”! It was fifty years ago. The world’s population was barely 4 billion people, half of today’s figure. But already, the Club of Rome, a circle of Western economic and political leaders, was sounding the alarm. Taking up the “Malthusian” discourse of a reverend, Thomas Robert Malthus, author of a Essay on the principle of population published in London in 1798, it stated: “If the rates of growth and therefore the overconsumption of reserves continue, the limits will be reached in the next century. »
At the time, it was right-wing talk. The left, promising with…
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