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The document we are provided with is a press article. It was published in the Guardian on September 29 2021. It deals with the impact on the economic activity on the climate crisis and the journalist tries to answer the following question: What did cause this crisis and how can we stop it before it is too late?

First of all, I would like to describe the term green growth that is mention several times in the article. It is a term to describe a path of economic growth that is environmentally sustainable.

The crisis we are now trying to prevent has been there for years if it isn’t decades. In that time, politicians have divided it to make it more understandable, which gave us the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the overfishing crisis. But I quote “nature recognises no such divisions”.

The cause of this crisis is no other than our actions as humans. We destroying and weakening almost every part of our ecosystem because of fossil fuel emission, overfishing, timber cutting, massive cattle ranching and so much other reason. But those actions intensify and impact each other in a chain reaction.

It was estimate that only 3% of the Earth’s lands surface can be considered ecologically intact.

Although we already know that our actions are responsible for this crisis, it is more precisely the economic activity that is responsible for it. Actually, we are doing too much of almost everything.

Furthermore, we are failing to treat this crisis without impacting the Environnement. In fact, our efforts to solve one aspect of the crisis exacerbate another. Every time, we are trying to conceive a system or a technology to save us from the climate breakdown, we are mining or using non-renewable resources that are traveling around the world through non-sustainable transportation.  Although in itself, this isn’t an argument against those green technologies but if the growth of economic activity is justified by the existence those machines, then, the result of it is just greater harm to the living world.

The journalist concludes saying that no matter what Boris Johnson says, green growth doesn’t exist because growth would be wiping the green from the planet. And if we don’t considerably reduce our activity, we have no hope of emerging from this crisis. But the journalist knows that right now this notion of doing less of everything is still blasphemy to the world.

And this is why, I asked myself: Is it possible? Are we capable of reducing our activities enough to emerge from this crisis?

First of all, I'd say we can, the minds are changing, we are finally understanding what is happening and what’s need to be done. The countries and the giants of the industry have already begun the green transition and are starting to take their responsibilities. Maybe not because they want to but they have to do it for their image. And at the same time, there are those international accords that are forcing countries and companies to reduce their activities. So, maybe it does is possible to emerge from this crisis but the remaining question is when?

Because, all over the world, even if people are conscious of what’s happening and what needs to be done, most of them don’t act. And yes, the giants of the world have begun their ecologic transition but we don’t know when they will achieve it. What we are doing, for now, is not enough to overcome this crisis.

So, to conclude, I think we are capable of emerging from the biggest crisis our world has ever known but I'm not sure if we will be doing it in time.

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