Climate and the Future

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Category: Earth, Air, Space Science

Published on Monday, 17 July 2023 13:40

Written by Olivier Longhi

The multiplication, frequency and duration of heat waves are pushing humanity towards an unprecedented challenge: ensuring its survival by inventing a new society that will be able to adapt to these violent and sudden rises in temperature.

The question is no longer whether summer temperatures, as well as winter temperatures, will defy all the climate models that prevailed until then, but how humanity, the first actor of climate change, will adapt to these violent and sudden rises in these same temperatures.

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With repeated heat waves, a scarce water resource and a counterproductive use of air conditioning systems from a climatic point of view, a large part of the world's population may find themselves destitute to cope with this upheaval. Of course, answers exist adapted and isolated constructions, rational use of water, adaptation of working hours in companies, etc. All viable solutions remain short-term solutions and cannot serve as operating models beyond the current century.

Standard and Principles

Future generations will certainly be responsible for developing new ways to protect themselves from heat waves that will become more and more frequent and more intense to the point of becoming the norm, but also the responsibility to certainly develop new lifestyles and new economic models that will no longer be based on fossil fuels. Because, make no mistake, multiple causes of global warming have their origins in the use of carbon-based energies (oil and coal in particular).

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Does this mean that the centuries to come will be articulated around economies freed from the tutelage imposed today by fossil fuels? It is not forbidden to think so, but if the reflection is open, it nevertheless remains to lay down the principles, namely with what energies will humanity base its future development.

Wind, solar, geothermal,.. Here again, there is no shortage of solutions. And to tell the truth, and without neglecting this question, it does not matter because what will be at the heart of the reflection and the materialization of it, is to know what type of society humanity will be satisfied with. Frugal or comfortable?

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The question of global warming, beyond an environmental issue, lays the foundations for a reflection on the societies of tomorrow, on their social and economic architecture. And to emerge new questions, certainly poorly understood to date, on the type of future food, the use of arable land, cereals to be privileged, constructions to be privileged.

But also political with the choice or not of a global, continental governance or continue with autonomous regimes brought to collaborate even more than at present... In short! The challenge is immense because climate change poses an essential challenge to humanity that it will have to meet because it is directly linked to its survival.

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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist, recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, a press and publishing consultant, and a communications consultant.