Apocalypse now / JEAN-FRANCIS PECRESSE / 08 / 10 to 19: 29
Twenty years is the time left for humanity to live on this planet as it has always lived - or so. Each year, the elements are unleashed a little more. But in twenty years, when the average temperature on the surface of the globe will have risen by 1,5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, it is the apocalypse we are promised.
Published Monday, the latest report of the Giec, the group of international experts, is the most disturbing ever published. For the first time, he leaves only a tiny space for hope. It is not reassuring to learn from reading that, with 1,5 ° C more instead of 2 ° C, we will experience a little less cyclones and droughts, that the sea level will move a few million less inhabitants, that 90% of coral reefs will be gone and not 99%, or that the melting of permafrost will release a little less greenhouse gas.
It's not reassuring because we're heading straight for a warmer planet of 3 ° C at the end of the century, and 1,5 ° C in 2040. This degree and a half separates a liveable world from an unbearable world. Needless to say, scientists force the trait. In twenty years, the damage done to nature will be irreversible. This means that, unless there is a huge collective surge, we, our children and grandchildren will survive in a violent environment.
Realism commands right now to adapt to this hostile world. The medium-term common interest is too hostage to national interests in the short term to hope that a large-scale, coordinated international effort can stop the race in time. Who can still think that we will halve greenhouse gas emissions by half, while they have stopped falling in 2017 and 2018? Certainly, as long as there is hope, no matter how small, our responsibility to future generations is to hold on to it. But if the sum of individual goodwill is no longer enough, if cooperation in the UN is a chimera - it should unfortunately be confirmed in December at the next COP in Poland - then the fate of the planet can still depend on regional mobilizations. In the end of a project, Europe would rise to the challenge of humanity by deciding to subject all public policies to the only criterion that is worth it, because it overhangs all others: the preservation of the planet.
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