In the press - "How long to save the planet from a climate catastrophe?"

Liberation

sets the tone for the French press, Friday September 25.

“The big red angry”, headlines the daily in reference to the new measures which go badly in France.

And for good reason: according to the national daily, it is because there was a "double fault".

“Problem of timing and casting”, estimates the journalist Paul Quinio in his editorial, judging that the announcements of Olivier Véran are those that should have made Jean Castex, there are already 15 days.

“Difficult announcements” will not be accepted by the French unless they are worn by all their representatives, ”underlines the editorialist.

A lack of communication with local representatives, also criticized in the daily newspaper

.

The cartoonist Ranson signs a drawing on which we can see Emmanuel Macron evoking a war against the coronavirus during the first confinement, and a war against the mayors of major French cities for a second confinement.

“We are witnessing a feud between the elected officials of the territory and the central power”, laughs the French newspaper.

“Yet we were promised concord in the face of the enemy”.

And to win the war, some prepare for battle.

After asking Olivier Veran to “close it” in the local newspaper La Provence yesterday, the LR mayor of Aix En Provence is speaking again in the columns of

.

“To allow ourselves such announcements without any control or any consultation, we cannot accept it” she said furiously, determined to act against the “anxiety-provoking” climate in which the government is plunging the country.

Acting and fighting back is also the program of local elected officials and restaurateurs in Marseille.

The local newspaper

predicts a “storm warning” in the face of the restrictions announced while the actors of the Marseille economic world have planned to gather to demonstrate this Friday morning.

New containment in Israel, result of "failed management"

In Israel, a second lockdown is already underway but the measures continue to tighten.

This is too much for

which points out the incoherent decisions of the Prime Minister.

“The cause of this lockdown is not the Covid-19, it is the failed, politicized, negligent and hysterical management of the crisis by this government” he accuses before ensuring that other solutions are possible as he could see from Taiwan to Finland, via Estonia.

“In every place where a serious government has enlisted professionals, worked in an organized manner, kept the public informed,” he notes, “the situation is different here in Israel.

We cannot trust the government ”.

A trust issue also mentioned in the pages of

, which details the Swedish model.

This country where "most of the measures were recommendations rather than legal decrees", describes the journalist, admiringly. "After a traumatic spring, this country is doing its best to learn from its initial mistakes," he recalls. Before concluding: "It is a stark contrast to Israel".

The countdown to climate anxiety

From one crisis to the next, global warming continues to worry activists who have installed a new kind of clock in the streets of New York.

A countdown detailed by

which figures the time we have left to act if we do not want the consequences of global warming to be irreversible.

That is 7 years and 97 days. 

But when we talk about this scary countdown and the fight against global warming, we do not necessarily think of animals to help us cope.

However,

paints us a dithyrambic portrait of these rodents which would be formidable in the fight against forest fires.

“Because they build dams, create ponds and dig canals, beavers irrigate large areas and create refuges that fire cannot reach,” reports The National Geographic.

Proof if they were still lacking that animals are beneficial for our ecosystem and allow to regulate certain climatic phenomena. "The magazine affirms that scientists have long recognized the beneficial effects of beavers for their environment, whether it is to filter pollution water or help store CO2, which gives us hope and a little more than seven years to save the planet.

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