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Until the first industrial revolution, human beings co-existed intelligently with a generous nature. But the first industrial age marked a turning point: human beings started exploiting resources that are limited by definition water, minerals, arable land, etc. on a large scale. Today, these resources are running out, and, in some parts of the world, nature can no longer even regulate itself.

The threats to the planet are increasingly numerous, visible and urgent. One example is the situation of fauna, which is thought to be facing mass extinction for the sixth time1. Preserving the living world is a challenge we must take up collectively before it is too late, because our own survival is also at stake.

Illustrations by Denis Carrier

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1 - Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Rodolfo Dirzo, Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signalled by vertebrate population losses and declines, 2017.

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