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Pour respecter l’accord de Paris, la mise en place d’une fiscalité environnementale est nécessaire et urgente, mais terriblement impopulaire. Comment sortir de cette impasse ?

Today is Earth Day, which should provide us with an opportunity to pause and confront the awful predicament humanity faces. We eat microplastics, breathe pollution and watch other life-forms decline to extinction. We face intersecting poverty, health, climate and biodiversity crises. Our global predicament is that consumption by the wealthy is driving us towards planetary disaster, yet billions live in poverty and need to consume more to live well. In this cycle, any version of “success” only hastens catastrophe.