Everyone is familiar with the term " biodiversity ". But what does this apparently simple term actually mean? We hear it over and over again: " biodiversity is in crisis ". Are we on the verge of a sixth extinction, with ourselves as the cause ? What can we learn from the crises of the Earth's geological past ? Can we still turn things around ? What are our levers for action ? Wouldn't the real question be ethics, ethics for the planet ?
President of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle since 2015, Bruno David was previously a researcher at the CNRS. A paleontologist and biologist, his research has led him to explore the evolution of biodiversity. He has taken part in major oceanographic missions, notably in the Southern Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific with the submersible Nautile. Since September 2020, he has been a columnist on France Culture, and is the author of À l'aube de la 6e extinction and Le Monde vivant, published by Grasset (2021 and 2022).
