Twitch. Chlordécone: A look back at a public health and environmental issue with Marie Baléo

The writer Marie Baléo, author of the investigation The Poisoners, Chlordecone: the story of French contempt, published by Grasset, and Isabelle do O'Gomes, journalist at Science and Future, will be live on the Twitch channel of Science and Future, Monday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m. The opportunity to return to the chlordecone affair, to talk about public health, the environment and to ask your questions.

For more than 20 years, the pesticide chlordecone has been used on agricultural plots to eliminate the banana weevil (Sordid Cosmopolitans), the most serious insect pest of banana plantations. In 2020, 90% of the population of Guadeloupe and Martinique were contaminated with chlordecone. Who is responsible? What role did scientific and political institutions play? In her investigation, Marie Baléo retraced the story of one of France's biggest environmental and health scandals. Her gripping and sensitive account sheds light on the behind-the-scenes story of a complex and taboo affair.

Come chat with us on Twitch!

This live broadcast is organized to answer your questions! What is the chlordecone ? What are the properties of this molecule? How has it been used on banana plantations? How Is the banana weevil ravaging crops? How did events unfold? Feel free to connect with us in the chat.

Previous Twitch of Science and Future are all online

Find our previous Twitch videos online, such as “ What is a species? » with Diane Dabir-Moghaddam and Pierre Kerner, “Epigenetics, a discipline as vast as it is mysterious” with Jonathan Weitzman and Renaud Pourpre, “Breath and its effects on emotions and the brain"with pulmonologist Thomas Similowski,"The History of the Universe and Dark Energy” with Pauline Zarrouk and Sébastien Carassou, “ The mechanisms of (eco)anxiety » with neuroscientist Anna Beyeler or even « Who were the Vikings really? » with Benjamin Brillaud from the YouTube channel Nota Bene.

Book by Marie Baléo : The Poisoners – Chlordecone: The Story of French Contempt, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, January 2025, 267 p., €22