The environment evolution is based on unquestionable statistical data and on physical laws which have been elaborated and confirmed as centuries went by. Ecologists, them, are politicians. They are looking for pleasing electors or some economic interests which support them. They prefer announcements effects, unnecessarily alarmist or deliberately provocative messages to get attention and to be heard, and even to be invited to TV talk shows. Then governments have, or at least they believe it, to take into account their assertions, even when they are not based on anything, to take some of their proposals and, at the end, to ...

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The Prime minister has just delivered his rebound plan details for the French economy to cope with the deep recession caused by the corona virus outbreak. He had delayed this presentation by a week in order to avoid to interfering with the announcement of the new sanitary measures decided due to the rise of the number of people affected by the virus during summer. That presentation also follows the publication of the detailed figures of French GDP for the 2^nd quarter, issued August 28^th. The rebound plan focused itself on its amount, 100 billion euro and on precise ...

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Les résultats des principales économies pour le 1er semestre permettent d’avoir une appréciation de l’ampleur des répercussions de la crise du corona virus et de leur diversité. Les pays les plus touchés ont été le Royaume-Uni, l’Espagne, la France et les Etats-Unis avec un niveau du PIB inférieur entre 15 et 20% à celui atteint un an auparavant. L’Allemagne a été frappée par une récession moins violente, -10% après -2% au premier trimestre. Le Japon et surtout la Corée du Sud ont connu des baisses d’activité bien ...

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