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Lutter contre le greenwashing

Le greenwashing mène à l’inaction climatique, et l’inaction climatique tue. Partant dans ce constat, comment faire pour repérer le greenwashing et le combattre ?

Carbon neutral airport : why it’s greenwashing

“Is a carbon neutral airport possible? I have a doubt…is this greenwashing?” This is an important issue as we will be dealing with it regularly in the years to come. Indeed, announcing oneself as “carbon neutral” is part of the great waltz of greenwashing by companies and governments. Announcements are pouring in: after Nice airport, […]

Instagram, greenwashing without limits

For a long time I thought Linkedin was the ultimate in greenwashing. That was without counting on Instagram, where some companies and influencers are having a field day spreading their deceptive and misleading practices. Even if you don’t have Instagram, it’s still a very good thing to know what’s going on there, to avoid the […]

Carbon neutrality, new greenwashing or real progress?

We are only at the beginning of Greenwashing. If greenwashing is receding in its most obvious forms, bullsh*t to make oneself GREEN has never been so prevalent. Désormais moins facile à détecter, le greenwashing a trouvé un bel allié : la neutralité carbone. Since the beginning of the year, many companies and states have announced their […]

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MANIFESTO “Bon Pote’s mission is to inform people about climate change and the collapse of biodiversity, while showing the active role that everyone can play for a more planet-friendly future. It may be too late to avoid certain consequences, but it is not and never will be too late to act and avoid the worst. […]

Criminels climatiques

Des décennies de mensonges, de déni et de greenwashing. Et pourtant certains passent encore à travers les mailles du filet. Comment faire pour repérer et combattre les criminels climatiques ?

Is skiing an ecological horror?

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Being interested in skiing and its ecological impact goes far beyond the simple question of greenhouse gases. If it is indeed a question of CO2, it is also a question of biodiversity, soil artificialisation, water management, and above all of social choices. What are the risks of transition? What imaginaries should we build for the […]

COP27: a COP for (almost) nothing

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COP27 ended with more than 24 hours delay and with a sense of unfinished business. While progress has been made, including the commitment to establish of a Loss and Damage fund, fossil fuels are yet to be mentioned in the final agreement. This disappointment contrasts with the 636 lobbyists from the coal, gas and oil […]

Why everyone should boycott the World Cup in Qatar

Boycotter la coupe du monde au Qatar est la seule réponse possible VIGNETTE

Instead of asking the question “Why we should boycott the World Cup in Qatar?”, the question should rather be “Why do you think this football World Cup should take place despite the evidence of corruption surrounding its winning bid, the deaths reported during the stadium construction, and the negative social and ecological impacts it is […]

Total1, Exxon2, Gazprom3: how should we rename heatwaves

An absolutely brilliant idea has resurfaced in recent weeks. First evoked by Christophe Cassou in 2019, several scientists suggested during the June 2022 heatwave to name the climate hazards by the names of the sources of pollutions. If this idea seems far-fetched at first glance, it would actually be very useful. Making the link between […]

10 misconceptions about lifestyle changes

Text by Mathieu Saujot, researcher at IDDRI and Sarah Thiriot, sociologist at ADEME In 2020, Bon Pote presented the 12 “discourses of climate delay” and how to respond to them, based on a scientific article that has since reached a large audience. In this work, 12 discourses that “accept the existence of climate change, but […]

How French banks are warming the planet

This is one of the least covered topics, yet absolutely crucial. The banks are warming the planet and continue to do so without ever being held accountable. The 13th edition of the Banking on Climate Chaos report has just been published and the figures are, as every year, staggering. Just one is enough to understand […]

The digital nomad: a nightmare for the climate?

Is the digital nomad the new trend to champion global warming? The question deserves to be asked. If you are not on social media, you may not be familiar with this lifestyle. This is nothing new: there were already #digitalnomad more than 10 years ago on Instagram, a hashtag that now counts more than 3.6 […]

Boycotting the Olympic Games is the only possible human response

Every sporting event brings its share of emotions and scandals. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be no exception. Let’s cut the suspense short right away: this article is not about the Beijing Olympics. Although we will discuss them briefly, they are of little intellectual interest. Indeed, even without being sensitive to climate issues, […]

You’re an ecologist but you have an iPhone

You’re an ecologist and you’re on social media! You’re ecologist but you have an iPhone! The hypocrisy of ecologists, as usual!” Mention ecology and you will inevitably be confronted with this type of remark. Whether on the Internet or at a family dinner, after a few exchanges, it is not uncommon for the person you […]

Guide to survive a family dinner as an ecologist

Not a day goes by without you being confronted with it. You are the environmentalist of the family. The environmentalist of the office, or of the group of friends. While you think that global warming should be the priority of our concerns, they think that you are exaggerating, that we have time, that whatever happens […]

Instagram accounts to follow on climate and the environment

After the best sources, books and podcasts to read about climate and the environment, here are the accounts to follow on Instagram! Like all social media, there is everything on Instagram: influencers who push to excessive consumption, Nabilla who promotes her lifestyle in Dubai, Mbappe who takes a selfie in his private jet to make […]

Is the Amazon rainforest moving towards a tipping point?

The Amazon is perhaps the first topic in our climate series that 100% of our readers have heard of. This natural region of South America that we studied at school is so immense and rich that it can’t leave anyone indifferent. The Amazon rainforest is often under the spotlight because of the massive deforestation it […]

COP26: Success for Some, Death Sentence for Others

COP26 (26th Conference of the Parties) negotiations have finally come to an end! Two long weeks during which speeches, promises, and negotiations intertwined to result in the Glasgow Pact. Following a COP is an enriching experience on all levels. Reading primary source information is one thing. Reading or listening to the media coverage of the […]

Carbon neutrality in 2050 is an illusion

Announcements of carbon neutrality in 2050 have been pouring in since the Paris Agreement. One after the other, the leaders all declare themselves “for ecology”, for a “positive ecology”, with “historic advances and unprecedented announcements” for …2050. In ecology, as everywhere else, promises are only binding on those who believe them. Despite a summer month […]

10 easy actions to go green

Following this letter, which was addressed to parents and grandparents (and which could very well have been addressed to children, brothers and sisters…), I received the following remark: “and now, what do we do? Your letter is very good, but what do we do now? You should make a list of 5 to 10 actions, […]

Environmental job blackmail, new excuse for climate inaction

We all know about job blackmail. The Covid was certainly the best time to practice. Thousands of people have heard phrases such as “we will have to cut your salary by 20%. It’s that, or we’ll have to part with you“. However, there is another form of job blackmail. Since the general public is gradually […]

Can hydrogen deliver on all its promises?

By Maxence Cordiez, energy engineer The subject of hydrogen regularly comes up in debates on the energy transition, whether to reduce dependence on oil in the 70s or greenhouse gas emissions in the 90s. However, low-carbon hydrogen has hardly developed to date, due to a number of constraints and limitations, which should not be underestimated, […]

Does punitive ecology make sense?

Since the Citizen’s Climate Convention made its 150 proposals last summer, the expression “punitive ecology” has been used extensively, both by the press and by certain political figures. Its use is anything but random, and is not new. Where does this expression come from? How long has it been popular? Who uses it? Which political […]

Football fans: should we boycott the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?

Talk about sport and ecology and you will be compared to a dictator. Talk about football and boycotting the 2022 World Cup and you will be persona non grata in the evening. As we are in the middle of Covid, I will take the opportunity to do so. This is an article that has been […]

Public services carbon footprint

Thousands of you simulated your carbon footprint and almost as many panicked when comparing the target (less than 2 tons CO2eq/year) and the share of the utility’s carbon footprint. These famous 1.3t which are displayed and which leave very little room before exceeding the famous 2 tons… What do public services represent? Public services include […]

Know everything about the Paris Agreement

This week, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a historic turning point for countries towards a sustainable world. In any case, this is what we can read since Monday morning in several articles of the French press, obviously very confident about the possibilities of limiting warming to +2 degrees. The Paris Agreement […]

Ecology: Should I quit my job?

‘Should I quit my job‘. This is the subject of an email I received last week. One (more) person who legitimately wonders whether they should leave their job to be in line with their beliefs. That pesky cognitive dissonance, that internal tension between our beliefs or emotions that are at odds with our attitudes. Let […]

Stop taking politicians for fools

“AHAH he’s so stupid he didn’t understand anything” “But she doesn’t know anything, I tell you… she’s a marble, she’s not even a trained engineer!” Here are the comments that one can read since years on the networks as soon as a new article comes out on a politician. More recently, we had a textbook […]

Climate: we will need everyone

“But why do we always hit the flight when it is only 2% of the emissions? “Why sports when it represents almost no shows?” “Why always Nabilla?” This is the kind of feedback I get after every article. Of course, this gives right to a big wave of whataboutism, saying ‘yeah but the others are […]

Climate: Can We Really Trust the IPCC?

“You’re turning a blind eye to the IPCC, it’s alarming. You have too much trust in science“. If you thought that climate skeptics were no longer a thing in 2020, you would be wrong. Although it is hard to pinpoint the exact number of people who deny global warming is a real thing — or […]

Why stop flying to tackle climate change

Is flying an ecological nonsense? As a prologue, I’d like to quote what physicist-climatologist and author of the fifth IPCC report François-Marie Bréon said in a hearing at the National Assembly in July 2019: “I think the vast majority of people don’t realise what it means to go carbon neutral, or even to divide our […]

Who pollutes: Total or the citizen?

It was while doing my daily two minutes in hell Twitter that I came across a message from Le réveilleur that bounced off a Greenpeace tweet, whose message was quite provocative: ‘Total’s carbon footprint is equal to France’s’. For personal reasons, I love it when people bash Total, I’m the first to do so. Even […]

Psychology and climate (1/2) : denial, anger… The 5 stages of grief

For at least 30 years, scientists have been warning about the serious consequences of our excessive consumption. Climate change acceleration due to human activity is no longer a debate. However, we are in an unusual position : we are driving a car running into a wall, and instead of slowing down , we ignore the wall […]

Jevons paradox and rebound effect

After tackling greenwashing and carbon neutrality, it’s high time to tackle the 3rd student of the triptych ‘I don’t need to change anything! Thus, I present you ‘energy efficiency‘. More subtle, more cunning than the first two, but terribly effective and very used by our favorite polluters. However, and this message is addressed above all […]