Once upon a time, a woman who should have been in the big book of records for having had an exponential number of lovers, hold on; these were 7.6 billion. Every day, for this woman was in the image of Valentine's Day because they all proved by small gestures or big how much she counted for them. She and her lovers lived in harmony without hindrance (...) »
What utopia! You say after reading these first lines is not it? It is true that it looks like a real fairy tale. Never stop! Like Martin Luther King, I too: "I had a dream, a dream in which the 7.6 billion inhabitants of planet Earth were eco-responsible citizens, citizens united in the fight against change climate, people who are passionately in love with the planet and who put their wellbeing before theirs ".
The planet Earth knows a decisive era where every action could be the one that changes the course of things or the one that accelerates the arrival of the eminent apocalypse. The global temperature is increasing and it is urgent to work to stay below 1.5 ° C rise in temperature compared to the pre-industrial era. Like Ying and Yang, there is a duality between the actions and events involved in the process of global warming, so we can counterbalance the effects of some of our habits by adopting new attitudes.
Why this 1.5 ° C threshold for rising global temperature?
This threshold is in fact a safety limit to curb the effects of climate change, including the extinction of certain species, heat waves, cyclones, falls in agricultural yields, melting glaciers, rising sea levels etc. Indeed, for each additional degree the risk relative to these calamities increases. It is often said that "we must target the moon, so when we fail, we will fall into the stars". The major conferences, symposia, institutions and even scientists who found themselves at the crossroads of the platforms speaking of the climate emergency have therefore agreed on the aim of a moon, that of staying below 1.5 ° C temperature rise, so when we fail we will hang on a star, that is 2 ° C maximum rise.
How not to exceed this threshold then?
This is a delicate issue that requires a relevant answer. That said, not exceeding this threshold is a challenge that must be met by the combined and concomitant actions of the major institutions, the States (both the industrialized ones, the Third World, and the islanders), non-governmental organizations governments but also citizens because everyone has his part to play in the orchestra actions to limit global warming.
Subsidize renewable energies (wind, solar), ecological agriculture; promote and finance green projects; adopting policies to propel the green economy and limit or even eradicate the use of fossil fuels and their by-products and deforestation may be the responsibility of global states and institutions. But it does not prevent the adoption of environmentally friendly habits (reduce its ecological footprint by favoring the consumption of local products and those with a green manufacturing ethos, by reducing its energy consumption, using public transport sorting and recycling its waste) is the responsibility of the citizens we are.
"These are all actions that weigh heavily in the balance and are part of the fight against global warming and indirectly in limiting the rise in global temperature."
Between living in harmony with the planet, making the best and most clever use of the resources that it contains to ensure our well-being and sustainable development and live according to our ego in search of profits that ignore the future consequences of our actions lead in a deep chasm, the choice is clear and it is up to us to do our part.
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