Duplomb Law: Lessons from an Ecological Surge

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As we were preparing for a twilight summer, brooding over the state of the world, exhausted by a year marked by countless regressions concerning ecology , the subject is making an unexpected return to the top of the media agenda.

The credit goes to Eléonore Paterry, the student who launched the petition against the Duplomb law on July 10, which notably authorized the return of a dangerous pesticide . Since then, the text has been garnering support at a frantic pace: the threshold of 100,000 signatures was exceeded on July 18, that of 500,000 the next day, and one million just under twenty-four hours later. At the time of writing, there are more than 1.7 billion…