"In ten years it will be too late," says Gore. Is it possible ? We would therefore so little time to save the climate of the Earth? And if this was an exceptional opportunity for a new Enlightenment for Europe? It is energy dependent and which since 50 years, is looking for a great project for the future?
To mark its tenth anniversary, Imagine tomorrow the world has chosen to produce a special issue. And to deepen a single subject, one that seems to dominate all the others today, by its importance both local and global: the essential mobilization in the face of the climate crisis.
The "critical level" not to be exceeded
In barely a generation, our way of perceiving the world has changed. Landing on the moon in 1969, man discovered all the fragility and all the finitude of his house, the Earth, isolated in the interplanetary immensity. We could see how thin the layer of atmosphere surrounding our planet is. However, it is this atmosphere that protects us both from the freezing cold from outside, as well as from the deadly ultraviolet rays coming from the sun. It is this thin layer, barely 30 km thick, working in symbiosis with the entire terrestrial climate system (vegetation, oceans, ice, sea currents ...), which allows life to exist. on our planet.
The following: http://www.imagine-magazine.com/lire/ar ... rticle=607