![]() ![]() ![]() The 74-year-old, who retired to France's rural Brittany region so he could live more sustainably, is also worried about an impending "global disaster with lots of victims, both economic and otherwise". ![]() Yet Cochet - whose book "Before the Collapse" predicts a meltdown in the next decade - is convinced that the virus will lead to "a global economic crisis of greater severity than has been imagined". While the mathematician, who founded France's Green party "still hesitates" about saying whether the virus will be the catalyst for a domino effect, he quoted the quip that "it's too early to say if it's too late". ![]() Some of its supporters, like former French environment minister Yves Cochet, believe the coronavirus crisis is another sign of impending catastrophe. The theory first emerged from France's Momentum Institute, and was popularised by a 2015 book, "How Everything Can Collapse". With climate change exposing how unsustainable the economic and social model based on fossil fuels is, they fear orthodox thinking may be speeding us to our doom. The crisis has come as a new movement called "collapsology" - which warns of the possible collapse of our societies as we know them - is gaining ground. PARIS - "The world will never be the same again," has been the oft-repeated refrain since the coronavirus brought the global economy to a juddering halt.įor many it has shown how fragile our civilisation is. For many, the COVID-19 crisis has shown how fragile our civilisation is ![]()
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