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EDITORIAL

By Odette FOUDRAL

Topics for discussion during friendly meetings are not lacking: heatwave, Brexit,
Amazonia, climate, and of course Greta Thunberg.

What is certain is that we live in the age of the supremacy of instant computing.

What to think of the Twits of a certain .... How did you already say ... Donald Trump!

I prefer, however, to have a little perspective. That's what led me to change the photo
on the cover page. All of us were challenged as former international civil servants by
Greta Thunberg's virulent diatribe at the United Nations Forum at the Climate Summit.

But with a bit of hindsight we are a bit more dubious: why only tackle Europe when the
United States withdrew from the Climate Convention, the Amazon and the Arctic forests
are burning and Sumatra is sinking into the ocean.

Far from me the idea of denying this young girl’s first impulses but now she seems to be
instrumentalised, not to mention the blow of bluff and the real cost of sailing across the
ocean in the name of the environment.

She was given the status of being a whistle-blower who at last called for concrete
actions, although the subject was often debated and this for a long time by a certain
Jacques Chirac. She’s now just a media puppet.

In this issue, we resume articles on the climate summit hoping that some things finally
move before the earth explodes. And if, at our level, we boycott the products of Brazil,
would not it be our contribution to the ecology!

Translation: Michèle VIEILLE

IN BRIEF

Some information which seems important

By Odette FOUDRAL

Social activities

We were able to resume the lunches for AAFI-AFICS members thanks to Carol
Cosgrove-Sacks. You will be able to register if the menu displayed on the inside page
suits you.

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