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The climate is changing. Rock paintings illustrate mammals in the Sahara and ibex at Lascaux. Well, as these animals have disappeared from these regions, this is indeed proof that the climate has changed. What is more, if this change is taking place, it is undoubtedly because of human beings.
The fact that the earth’s axis is tilting relative to the ecliptic plane, which changes over a period of 10 000 years for example, and that, as Milankovitch demonstrated, this has an influence on the climate, matters little. The fact that the great phenomenon of oceanic respiration, with vast rivers plunging in the North Atlantic only to resurface in the Pacific, has an influence on the climate, matters even less here.
Fear requires explanations, great and reassuring mythologies, cosmogonies, Good and Evil, and punishments. We are therefore punished for our ingenuity, punished for our progress and punished for our inventions and our creations. Man as Prometheus, who stole fire, must today receive his punishment in the shape of melting ice fields, rising sea levels, heatwaves and a lack of oxygen. Just as, in the past, there were the plagues of Egypt.
All of that would be fine if this post-Medieval confusion were to lead to a change in the economic and social climate that causes the – very real – decline from which we suffer."@en1
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