Over the past thirty years, climate change on our beautiful planet has accelerated considerably.
Rising temperatures, melting ice caps, advancing deserts, weather episodes (hurricanes, heatwaves, torrential rains) of unprecedented violence since modern observation of the sky and mercury, the situation is one of the hottest for the future of mankind.
Yet it is to this same Man that the globe that shelters us owes this worrying situation.
Or more precisely, his lifestyle.
With almost 8 billion people on the move and consuming in all directions, ultra-mobility and over-consumption are unquestionably the two main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.
This “revolution in nature”, in the form of the deregulation of the natural world, sets off a chain reaction that has a profound impact on the living world.
Among the most remarkable and worrying symptoms are the massive migration and disappearance of animals, and the worldwide appearance of new diseases.
An epidemic of destructive behavior that the coronavirus stopped dead in its tracks for two months.
With factories and transport at a standstill, and oil prices plummeting, over-consumption and its harmful effects have been put on forced pause.
This quarantine of our modus vivendi will have enabled us to carry out numerous studies and research projects, on land, at sea and in space, in order to understand more precisely the consequences of our actions on the future of our planet.
And therefore of humanity.
Millions of pieces of data that could be deconstructed, analyzed, modeled and projected by the Japanese supercomputer Fugazu, to teach us that unless we make a drastic change of course and profoundly alter our lifestyles, humanity’s days are numbered.
The late, extra-lucid scientist Stephen Hawkins also predicted the extinction of our species in less than 1,000 years, in a funeral testament.
The good news is that the Covid-19 crisis, which is likely to have claimed a million souls by 2021, could well be man’s salvation.
By bringing trade to a screeching halt and reducing our lifestyles to the bare minimum (food, health, accommodation), the new coronavirus sets itself up as the policeman of man’s excesses, striking precisely where it hurts… nature.
Having failed to manage our resources and respect our host, we’re now forced to rethink our lifestyles – a necessary New Deal that will have to include an end to unbridled mobility and consumption.
It’s up to us to take up this challenge by adopting more responsible behavior.
As for the desire to travel to all horizons, a very Western neurosis, here too, a new paradigm is needed.
And why not take inspiration from that old Amazonian saying that chef Benki Pikayo, observing the neurotic fidgeting of the modern world, likes to quote:
“You don’t have to take a plane or a rocket to travel, there have always been plants for that”.
Links:
http://www.environnement.gouv.qc.ca/climat/surveillance/index.asp
https://www.un.org/fr/sections/issues-depth/climate-change/index.html
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_04/francais.html
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/06/23/national/fugaku-supercomputer-ranked-fastest/
https://myco2emission.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-YWj4JSr6gIVBEkYCh0ijgxGEAMYASAAEgLqFfD_BwE
https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sciences/stephen-hawking-l-humanite-ne-survivra-pas-1000-ans-de-plus-sur-terre_1851390.amp.htm
