When I was a student during my international economics explained to me that one of the causes of underdevelopment lay in a "time preference" too high. It is intriguing to note how the course of the world changed in twenty years. Thus, our old country panics coronavirus: 41 cases in the world for 21 hours with death, two people living in France, in short a terrible pandemic that justifies the displacement of the Minister of Health in the hospital where treated one patient! At the same time, public opinion does not seem to move the concentration of CO over the Pacific Ocean reaches a peak for 3 million years, which, according to the IPCC, may result in increase the long-term average temperature of 2.4 degrees, full of uncertainty increase the biodiversity of life in coastal areas and, for once, the human health. Of course, the big climate risk will not materialize this year (though), but the collective consequences, if we see a little further than the tip of his nose, are far more serious than a Although virus on our doorstep. Eco-innovation covers three main fields. First, the production of natural resources, which is particularly, but not only, what is usually called the "renewable energy". Today, wind and solar energy can be used as a complement to fossil fuels. But from the moment you will be able to store electricity, renewable energy can penetrate. This progress is perhaps not so far, if you believe the work of researchers like Professor Donald Sadoway, MIT, who with his team and the financial support of large companies, built giant batteries may maintain such stocks. The second way to reduce our ecological footprint is to reuse many times what the earth has given us. This is the "circular economy", a concept that opposes the economy "linear" and which extends beyond the more known recycling. This practice is one of the elements that, all things being equal, reduce the ecological footprint without being punished by the decay. The third way to reduce the environmental footprint without decreasing through neutralization of our programs: for example, capture the CO before it enters the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil where it will be less harmful.
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