#TBT: When former French president Jacques Chirac

"Our house is burning and we're looking away"  Former French president Jacques Chirac has just passed away. Those were his words 17 years ago. #TBT

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00:00Our house is burning, and we are looking elsewhere.

00:07Your mutilated, over-exploited nature is no longer able to reconstitute itself,

00:15and we refuse to admit it.

00:19Humanity is suffering.

00:22It is suffering from poor development, both in the North and in the South,

00:29and we are indifferent.

00:32The Earth and humanity are in peril, and we are all responsible for it.

00:42We cannot say that we did not know.

00:47Let us bear in mind that the 21st century does not become, for future generations,

00:54that of a crime of humanity against life.