In 2024, Libé explores the theme of ecological transition during a series of free and general public meetings. Objective: find solutions as close as possible to the territories. Third stage of our second edition: Grenoble, October 4 and 5. An event carried out in partnership with the Grenoble metropolis and with the support of Crédit coopératif, the Vyv group, the Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe), the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Pioche magazine! and Green the media.
How many floods, like that of Cannes on Monday September 23, will we still have to endure? How many times will Pas-de-Calais have to be flooded? How many mudslides, like those which destroyed the Aspe valley or the hamlet of La Bérarde, will we have to relive?
How many more fires will burn in Landes and Gironde? How many more deaths will we have to mourn because of repeated heat waves? In 2023, there would be more than 50,000 in Europe.
How many kindergarten students will have to endure heat waves of more than 35°C in their classrooms before the State does something? In six school years, there will be 1.3 million children in this case.
How far are we going to allow the erosion of the coastline to swallow up homes? How many glaciers will collapse, destroying ecosystems and further reducing the flow of rivers and rivers like the Rhône, which are essential to our energy and the irrigation of at least 17,000 hectares of agricultural land; before the problem is measured?
How many hurricanes are we going to let sweep through Reunion, Martinique or Guadeloupe?
How many people will have to stop showering to continue drinking in Mayotte?
How many workers trapped by the heat will still die until the State takes stock of the issue? Between 2017 and 2022, there were 54.
Climate change is a reality today for all French people. However, governments continue to play haggard: we pretend not to see it, we turn away from it in favor, supposedly, of other, more urgent priorities. But what is more urgent than allowing these citizens to stay alive?
26 fundamental human rights, out of the 50 contained in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and which France is supposed to guarantee, are directly or indirectly threatened by the impacts of climate change.
A plan: this is what we are asking the government today. The national plan for adaptation to climate change. Already postponed at least four times over the past year, this is also what the Court of Auditors also recommends in its 2024 report devoted to adaptation to climate change. This is also what Corinne Le Quéré, president of the High Council for the Climate, asks in her open letter last April to the government. This is also what the organizations behind the Deal of the Century (Our Everyone’s Business, Greenpeace France, Oxfam France) are asking for in a letter submitted on September 27 to the Prime Minister.
We are asking it because it is an absolute emergency, but also because it is a legal obligation. According to the law, the State had until July 1, 2023 to publish a plan – like the other plans to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the national low carbon strategy and the multi-annual energy programming, also in the oblivion.
It is time for the State to take its responsibilities. It is time to finally move from reaction to the accident to anticipation and prevention.
Source: www.liberation.fr
