Marie-Monique Robin, journaliste et réalisatrice, est lauréate du prix Albert-Londres (1995). Elle a réalisé de nombreux documentaires et est l’autrice de plusieurs ouvrages, dont Notre poison quotidien, Sacrée croissance ! et La Fabrique des pandémies.
2021-03-01 - Christian Chavagneux - Alternatives Économiques
In this rigorously documented essay, the renowned journalist Marie-Monique Robin, author of the damning bestseller against Monsanto, explores the link between the proliferation of new viruses and the destruction of biodiversity.
The power of this compelling work is that it provides a unique, comprehensive view by providing a synthesis of numerous scientific works and previously unpublished interviews with some thirty international researchers.
If nothing is done, other, ever more serious pandemics will follow. Thus, rather than a vain race for vaccines or the chronic confinement of the population, the only antidote to this threat is the preservation of biodiversity, and a challenge to the pernicious power of humans over ecosystems, the fruit of the dominant economic model.
Marie-Monique Robin, is a journalist, filmmaker and winner of the Albert-Londres prize, (1995). She has made numerous documentaries in Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia for which she has been awarded some thirty international prizes. She is also the author of several works including, with La Découverte, Escadrons de la mort, l’école française (Death squads, the French school system) (2004), Le Monde selon Monsanto (The World according to Monsanto (2008), Notre poison quotidien (Our daily poison) (2011), Les Moissons du futur (The harvests of the future) (2013), Sacrée Croissance ! (Sacred growth) (2015) and Le Roundup face à ses juges (Roundup before its judges) (2017).
Serge Morand, is a researcher at the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and the CIRAD (Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). He works at the Centre d’infectiologie Christophe-Mérieux (Infectious diseases research center) in Laos. He is an evolutionist ecologist and an in the field parasitologist and has carried out numerous missions on the relations between biodiversity and transmittable diseases. He is the author of La Prochaine Peste. Une histoire globale des maladies infectieuses (The next plague. A comprehensive history of infectious diseases) (Fayard, 2016).