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“take-back” laws under which producers re-assume responsibility for products at the end of their useful lives. Such laws create a strong incentive for companies to reduce the materials used in products and packaging and to make them recyclable or remanufacturable.

Claire Pennoyer Chouinard high up in a merlin’s nest, Cascapedia River, Quebec,

Pour éviter un changement climatique dangereux, par exemple, il faut que la concentration de dioxyde de carbone dans l’atmosphère reste inférieure à 350 parties par million. Pour limiter la reconversion des terres, il faut veiller à ce qu’au moins 75 % des terres jadis forestières restent boisées. Et en matière d’engrais chimiques, il faut ajouter

That’s the key driver for my work – can you imagine a world in which the law would prevent corporations from investing in business practices that cause harm to people and the planet?

Taxes, quotas and tiered pricing can clearly help to ease humanity’s pressure on Earth’s sources and sinks, but here’s the trouble with believing that they will do the whole job. In practice they fall short because they are rarely set to the level required: corporations lobby hard to delay their introduction, to lower the tax rate, to increase the

Our Earth is a plentiful place – it generates an abundance of forests and fish and crops every year. It is also remarkably resilient, as it not only reproduces these things as we use them, it absorbs and processes our waste too: our emissions, our chemical run-off, and so on. But in order for the planet to maintain these capacities, we can only tak

obdurate.

Depuis 1981, Pierre Rabhi enseigne l’agroécologie dans un certain nombre de structures nationales et, depuis la création et l’animation du centre de formation de Gorom-Gorom au Burkina Faso, en 1984, il transmet son savoir-faire dans différentes régions du monde, cherchant à redonner leur autonomie alimentaire aux populations.