Atmospheric and ocean temperatures reached record highs last March and polar glaciers are melting at great speed. Life is threatened everywhere and a sixth great extinction of species is predicted. Even ocean life is in danger, under the effect of the cooling of the air at high temperatures that the oceans provide at the cost of their predicted acidification.
To make matters worse, belief in science and reason is declining to make way for an uninhibited right-wing populism that espouses the most outlandish theses while seducing part of the population. These people are not even aware of the real issues and the seriousness of our collective abandonment towards self-destruction, towards which we are blithely following suit without changing our way of life.
What reasonable person would not care about this situation? Most of us will still be alive, especially our children and grandchildren, when the great upheavals arrive and civilization shakes to its foundations.
The worst part is that we have known this for decades and could have changed in time to avoid collapse. But we preferred to succumb to the siren songs of money, unbridled economic development and mass consumption, thus cannibalizing our living environment and our future.
At the end of the day, all this evolution, all this scientific progress will only have served this ultimate outcome? All that for this ?
When I was young, I was quite confident in the future and believed that humanity would eventually make the right choices when the time came. This hypothesis still remains to be demonstrated. But time plays against her, and against us, as long as we remain, like ostriches, threatened with extinction, with our heads in the sand…
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