Komla YAWO

En Ouganda, un dramatique accident de la route est venu rappeler, dimanche soir, la fragilité de la coexistence entre le développement des infrastructures de transport et la préservation de la biodiversité en Afrique de l'Est. Dans le nord-ouest de l'Ouganda, au cœur du célèbre parc national de Murchison Falls, un minibus a violemment percuté un éléphant qui traversait la chaussée.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

Few substances have defined material modernity as much as plastic.

Plastic as a strategic resource

Few substances have defined material modernity as much as plastic, and few, like it, are driving silent transformations today whose impact, however, is enormous-at least in geopolitical terms.

Born as a laboratory product in the early decades of the 20th century and spreading on an industrial scale after World War II, it has traversed the entire spectrum of collective perceptions in less than a century: from enthusiasm for the material of abundance and the democratization of consumption, to condemnation as the quintessential symbol of global pollution.