Ahmed wrote:... thus, less polluting engines make possible a more intense automobile circulation, compensatory "natural reserves", make it possible to continue to destroy the rest of nature, effective psychotropic drugs ensure the resignation of men to the absurdity of the conditions of their existence ...
That's quite right. The system develops all its ingenuity to allow us to continue with a light heart and not change anything.
But behind, testimonies are increasing to indicate that problems such as global warming, melting ice and rising sea levels are racing. The conclusion to be drawn is double-sided:
- not only have we not yet done anything serious in the face of these problems;
- but even if we took it seriously today, we have already given them enough potential to increase tenfold before we can notice the slightest change in the trends observed!
And these trends are heavy. The only way to stop everything would be to remove between a third and a half of the atmospheric CO2 there right away, which is what we have emitted in the last 100 or 150 years.
Thus, the Antarctic that we have so far wanted to believe indifferent to global warming suddenly shows that it wants to participate in the celebration (
http://www.mediaterre.org/actu,20170220102439,1.html;
https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/2017/01/30/un-iceberg-geant-se-brise-fonte-lantarctique-saccelere). All the "alpine" glaciers in the world are shrinking, and in the Alps, those that flow less than 4000 meters are preparing to bow out (
http://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/climatologie-fonte-glaciers-alpins-accelere-depuis-2003-35124/;
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/101 ... de-vitesse). Greenland will increasingly deserve its name of green land (
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/climat/en-images-la-fonte-de-la-calotte-glaciaire-du-groenland-comme-vous-ne-l-avez-jamais-vue_2061703.html;
http://www.lepoint.fr/environnement/fon ... _1927.php; http://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/a ... -groenland).
Everyone will understand what they want, but "melting ten times faster than expected" means above all that all the officially accepted forecasts of melting ice and rising sea levels, caught between political, scientific, media and psychological, are much, much too careful! And since everyone remains cautious, even the most alarmist forecasts of the moment (
http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html) are certainly still far below the looming reality.
The level of the oceans and seas will apparently rise faster and higher than predicted, and the phenomenon of melting is positive feedback (the faster it melts, the faster it will melt;
http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/node/4895 and so many others).
Much faster and much higher ...
And if you want to believe that this will only concern those who live on the edge of the big blue, rather expect that most have the idea of migrating and come to see if there is room and food for them near you.
The keyword of our survival, that's life because we do not eat pebbles, then kill them with respect and discernment!