“The poisoners. Chlordecone, a story of a French contempt, ”published by Grasset, is a backstage in the backstage of one of the largest French environmental and health scandals. How the State, which has known the dangerousness of chlordecone since the 1970s, let banana producers use this pesticide until 1993. Soils and waters are durably contaminated, more than 90 % of the inhabitants of Martinique and Guadeloupe have chlordecone in the blood. Its effects are now measured on the health of children, which in particular sulfur intellectual delays. Interview with the author, Marie Baléo.
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“The poisoners”, back on the chlordecone scandal in Martinique and in Guadeloupe
