Director of research at the CNRS, member of the Chrono-environnement laboratory, Emmanuel Garnier is a climate historian. “That is to say that I observe it over the long term of the last thousand years and that I am interested in its impact on societies in terms of resilience” he specifies.
Hecatomb among the spruce plantations
And if “Franche-Comté does not display the most alarming signals of climate change”, the fact remains that the premises are being felt. The carnage among the spruce plantations bears witness to this. But it is more the “chronicle of an announced decline”, relativizes Emmanuel Garnier: “they were massively planted in the last century in areas that were not suitable for them. In addition to the acidification of…