CThe days, the dystopian excess of the news sometimes leaves the feeling that the classic instruments of the written press-a certain level of language, the sense of nuance and measurement, weighting-are no longer everything is adapted to the world as it goes. Once the facts have been reported, there is often the feeling that their report did not do justice to all their strangeness.
The sequence of events that chanted the day of January 20 and the inauguration of the 47e President of the United States is the latest example-even if it is difficult to determine what has been the most denied fact.
The effects of the environmental crisis always participate more, also, in this feeling of unreality – whether it be the monster floods that have ravaged, in Spain, Valence and its region, or the fire storm that comes from 'destroy certain districts of Los Angeles.
Published in mid-January, the survey conducted by The world And around thirty European media on the consequences of the contamination of the environment by PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkylas, or “eternal pollutants”) opens new dystopian horizons to the news.
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This time, it is not a question of extraordinary destruction linked to the disruption of the climate, but the enormity of the operations necessary for the management of this pollution, which accumulates inexorably in soils, water, fauna, The food chain and humans, as PFAS is produced and dispersed in the environment.
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In Zwijndrecht, near Antwerp, in Belgium, the disaster is such that a color code is assigned to residential neighborhoods, depending on their level of contamination. Two municipal employees help residents respect a whole diversity of instructions intended to reduce their exposure to these substances, widespread for decades by the 3M factory, installed in the vicinity.
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