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The deconfinement should not be an excuse to trample the environment. This is the message delivered by Matthieu Ricard, Tuesday in L'Equipée sauvage on Europe 1. The most famous Buddhist monk in France estimated that "the big mistake in deconfinement would be to say: 'We are relaunching consumption at full speed, l 'environment we'll see that later.' "
According to the essayist, we must "on the contrary" take advantage of the drop in pollution caused by the coronavirus crisis to "live better, and in a simpler way".
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"Learn from what happened"
"We have to learn from what happened," he said. "If only governments could show determination and take drastic measures for the planet, there would be little hope of being able to implement the recommendations of scientists" for the environment. "There is a place in India located 200 kilometers from the Himalayas, and it is the first time in 40 years that they can see it on the horizon," he said. "People realize that things would be very different without pollution, [...] they may realize now that it is worth the effort."
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The return to a certain form of humility in the face of death
Furthermore, Matthieu Ricard argues that the Covid-19 crisis has shown the weaknesses of the modern Western lifestyle. "We have the impression that we have become masters of the world, that we have extracted ourselves from nature because we manipulate genes and send people to the Moon. And suddenly, something 'a tenth of a millimeter plugs everything on the ground. " If millions of people die every year around the world from tobacco or pollution, he explains that "we do not see these dead", unlike victims of the coronavirus whose toll is published daily. Covid-19 would it allow "modern man" to find a form of humility in the face of death? "Exactly."