Editorial: Liberation

• The main challenge of ecology is to involve the most affected, namely, the inhabitants of the popular neighborhoods.
• The concrete suburbs of France suffer severely during episodes of intense heat and extreme cold.
• In these territories, climatic inequalities meet social inequalities, making them especially vulnerable.
• Ecology has yet to become a concern for the majority of the inhabitants of these cities.
• There is an urgent need to rethink ecology, with and for the less privileged, ending the verticality of an ecology made by elites.
• Ecology can be liberating, economically training youth for the opportunities of the future, and politically building the foundations of a more just and sustainable society.

Conclusion: Popular ecology is an opportunity. Precisely because the neighborhoods suffer all the difficulties, the solutions that arise there will be up to the challenge that concerns us all.

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