"Is the world really worse off than before?"
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Snow and cloud covered mountain in Germany in 2016 (Illustrative image) dpa / AFP / Archive
By: Guillaume Naudin Follow
2 min
2020, thank you very much.
2020, the worst year in history, according to the American weekly "Time magazine".
It must be said that between a global pandemic triggered by an unknown virus a year ago, and which has so far caused more than 1.7 million deaths, the heavy economic consequences of this pandemic, wars and attacks which continue everywhere on the planet, as well as climate change, it must be admitted that the general mood is not particularly optimistic.
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From there to saying that this is the worst time of all time, there may be a step.
Is the world less well than before, and even, dare we, is it better?
This is the question of the day.
To discuss it:
Catherine Larrère
, philosopher, professor emeritus at Panthéon Assas University, author of the book
The Worst is Not Certain
: Essay on Catastrophic Blindness
, Premier Parallèle editions, September 2020
Jean François Dordier
, humanologist, founder of
Sciences Humaines
and
L'Humanologue
, quarterly devoted to the study of humans, a strange species ...
Jacques Lecomte
, doctor in psychology and president of the French association of positive psychology, author of numerous essays, including
The world is going much better than you think
, editions les Arènes (2017)
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