Notes
Published originally under the title “Environnement: les paradoxes d'une crise”; in La Recherche 21. 882–884 (1990). Translated and republished with the permission of La Recherche. Translated by sheila A. Stoullig in collaboration with Karen A. Simpson.
Assistant‐Director for Environmental Activities, United Nations Educational, Scientific and cultural Organization (UNESCO); President of SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU); Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifigue (CNRS), France.