Reconciling ecology and growth, a difficult bet
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A view of the port of Vlora in Albania.
(Illustrative image) Getty Images - Walter Bibikow
By: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow
22 mins
Green tourism is booming, and more and more business sectors are trying to reduce their environmental impact on the planet.
But reconciling growth and ecology sometimes turns out to be complicated as interests diverge.
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To revive tourism damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, many European countries are betting on an ecological offer
. The idea is not new, but demand is on the rise. Agrotourism can sometimes also slow down the exodus or emigration, as
in Permits in the south of Albania
. But
the subsoil of the region, rich in hydrocarbons, attracts industrialists
, and the inhabitants protest.
A report by Louis Seiller
Agrofuels, carbon offsetting, green finance: a blind process of commodification of nature believes
economist Hélène Tordjman,
author of the book
Green growth against nature
(ed. La Découverte
) in which she returns to the ecological, technical and economic springs who are at work behind the ecological transition.
She explains to Juliette Rengeval why growth and ecology would be irreconcilable.
With confinement, neighbors sometimes got to know each other better
,
for better… or for worse!
Since the start of the covid crisis in France,
the justice conciliators no longer know where to turn the
files are piling up on their desks. These men and women are looking for amicable solutions to avoid cluttering up already overwhelmed courts ...
A report by Lise Verbeke in the north of France
.
Who sings there?
the cult comedy of Balkan cinema is re-emerging on French screens
thanks to distributor Malavida.
Filmed in 1980, this wacky film on the Second World War 1941 appeared last year in the "classics" selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
Simon Rico gives us a taste of it
.
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