Around a table at the La Baleine Déhydratee bar in Quimper, Côme, cabinetmaker and member of the local support committee for environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, explains the rules of the “Climate Fresco”. “With cards, you will form a fresco for dissect the causes and the consequences of global warming.” As the participants gradually place their cards one after the other, the young man patiently explains concepts such as carbon sinks or ocean acidification.
Make IPCC reports accessible
“The fresco makes it possible to make more fun and more accessible the scenarios of the IPCC reports” explains the young activist. Indeed, the reports of the intergovernmental group of experts on the climate are 4,000 pages long. “Especially since we tend to believe that we know how global warming works, when it is more complex and more serious than we think”.
A popularization by the game that appeals to Jean-Paul, a retired teacher. “It allows us to appropriate a vocabulary that is not ours, that of the IPCC climatologists.”
Train activists
But it is true that are present this Saturday, January 22, mainly activists. From “already convinced” as Daniel describes himself, who has been an activist since the 80s. However, the process is far from useless. “It allows us to become individual ambassadors of a truth. It trains us to answer questions.”
Ability to engage in debate and dialogue, everywhere, that’s also what Françoise wants to do. “With my neighbors in the building, we thought we could do this kind of activity ourselves, to talk to our grandchildren about it. That’s why I’m here, to see if I can organize it at my house.”
A game developed by a French engineer
The game proposed by the EELV activists is taken from cards created by the French engineer Cédric Ringenbach, of the association “La Fresque du Climat”. Several versions exist (adult, expert, child or quiz).