En 1980, René Dumont wrote "protecting the environment would require a vast general education campaign, just like hygiene or malnutrition". This cry of alarm from a man who does not let himself be told, specialist in Africa, environmentalist from the start, has it been followed up?
The international organizations whose role is to look into the problems of the planet have sometimes woken up late to the protection of the African environment and for a long time, in the ministries responsible for cooperation programs, we have mainly reasoned in terms of investments. heavy and GNP. The education of a citizen of the world, responsible for his environment was not a priority. Today, faced with the urgency of the situation, hesitation is no longer in order.