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The big change
Karl Marx demonstrated that capitalism would experience numerous crises due to its inherently unstable functioning, which penalizes the majority of the population. Companies cannot differentiate themselves from one another solely through their machinery, because their competitors also have machinery that they can push to its limits. Human labor can always be pushed to do more…
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The diesel engine
Diesel engines are more efficient, more reliable, easier to repair, and more polyvalent than gasoline engines. Diesel engines produce combustion particles, but their ecological footprint can be reduced through the use of filters and additives. Like all combustion engines, they pollute, but they are the most efficient — meaning they use less fuel and emit…
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Teleworking
Teleworking and flexible working hours have many advantages and are easy to implement. The legal framework is already in place, teleworking has been experimented during COVID, and many office tasks are now digitized and can therefore be performed remotely. This improves citizens’ lives without the need for politicians, voting, or conflict. With more teleworking, the…
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Mission Possible – Options
Achieving long-term social and environmental development goals requires a systemic approach. In every country, there are very different opinions on what should be done. We must live together. No group, whether on the right, left, or center, can impose its will on the rest of the population. Punishing part of the population is unnecessary. Governing…
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Our lives depend on the upcoming midterms
Aggression serves no purpose. Insults, lack of restraint, denigration, wanting to punish others, and violence have serious consequences. intransigence has serious consequences on both the left and the right; it is the best way to loose elections. It creates enemies. Improving the world does not mean accusing others. We need more tolerance on both the…
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Siblings in humanity
It is true that the quality of life in France is better than in most countries around the world. Some people therefore wonder: why do they complain? Why are the French such grumblers? It is precisely because they are not fooled, because they defend themselves and because they show solidarity that they have a better…
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Societies that choose solidarity are those where people want to go
“One for all – all for one” Self-interest at the expense of the general interest doesn’t pay off. Societies in which each individual acts in his or her own interest rather than in the general interest live less well than those that choose the interests of the group. Paradoxically, those who think of their personal…
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No to piecemeal solutions, let’s change the system
Le systémisme – France Inter: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/en-quete-de-politique/en-quete-de-politque-du-dimanche-11-mai-2025-7099785 To protect the environment, we need to emit less CO2 and pollute less. Governments are proposing to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles. This is a half-measure. What about truck traffic, container ships, and the consequences of lithium and steel mining? To really tackle the issue of transport-related pollution,…
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Polls and tactical voting
In France, Anne Hildalgo and Eva Joly were candidates with ambitious progressive, social, and ecological programs who had proven themselves in the past. One had managed the city of Paris as mayor, and the other had brought oil company executives and corrupt politicians to prison through her work as an investigating judge. The polls gave…
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Overconsumption of lithium
Lithium mining pollutes: it produces a huge amount of waste that kills all forms of life in soils and rivers if not reprocessed. Lithium mining is costly for the planet. To use lithium in lithium batteries, cobalt and other earths are also needed, which are only found in a few countries where they are easy…