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Tribunes and interviews: climate, forests and conscience at the heart of the debates

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Le Figaro Actualités8/31/2026Opinion1 min readFrance

Tribunes and interviews: climate, forests and conscience at the heart of the debates

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Three columns and an interview published in FigaroVox address France's renunciation of ambitious climate policies, the role of the artificialization of forests in the megafires of the summer of 2026, and journalist Michael Pollan's investigation into consciousness as a scientific mystery.

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The columns criticize the French approach to climate change and forest fires, while the interview explores consciousness through neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

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Gonéri Le Cozannet: “Adapting to climate change without reducing our CO₂ emissions is a challenge”

FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - France has given up on ambitious climate policies by letting itself be convinced by the chimerical idea of adapting to climate change without trying to mitigate it, denounces the scientist, author of the 6th and 7th IPCC reports.

Bruno Carpentier: “The artificialization of our forests is also responsible for the megafires of summer 2026”

FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - For the writer, the violence of the fires which ravaged our forests in July and August is also due to the history of our landscapes, the way in which certain massifs were shaped, exploited then abandoned, as well as the choices of urbanization and development.

Michael Pollan: “Consciousness remains a mystery to science”

INTERVIEW - In his book And a World Appears, the American journalist and essayist investigates one of the great contemporary mysteries: consciousness. From neuroscience to artificial intelligence, he explores the frontiers of the mind and questions what makes humans unique.

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What climate policies could France adopt to reconcile adaptation and mitigation?
How can we effectively combat the artificialization of forest soils?
What recent advances in neuroscience could clarify the mystery of consciousness?

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This article was originally published by Le Figaro Actualités.