Economic lung – Le Parisien

The monster fires in Gironde are not just an environmental disaster. It is also an economic disaster. The millions of tons of trees gone up in smoke are jeopardizing the region’s timber industry, the largest in France. Loggers can no longer enter plots to cut. Sawmills, for lack of raw material supply, are shut down. At the end of the chain, it is the manufacturers of packaging, pallets or building materials that operate in slow motion. This dramatic event confirms the climate emergency and hides another: that of an overhaul of forestry activity in France.