Climate: why aren't we doing enough?

Is it too late?

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In the film "Don't look up", two researchers try to alert the population, in vain, to the threat of a comet which is about to destroy the planet.

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By: Philippe Lecaplain

1 min

Don't look up 

!

is currently a hit on Netflix.

Convinced that a meteorite is about to destroy the Earth, two astronomers embark on a media tour to warn humanity of the probable and inevitable end of the world.

Nobody believes them, and others have an interest in it being so, in order to continue their business and make a profit. 

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Cosmic Denial

is the subtitle of the film which ends on a planet Earth ravaged by the upheaval of its climate.

Can we extrapolate by talking about climate denial?

2021 was the hottest year in recent history, and climate change is pointed to whenever tornadoes, fires or floods rage. 

Is there a real and determined will to save the planet when the French State – for example – has just been condemned in the context of what has been called “the affair of the century”. 

Why aren't we doing enough?

Is it too late? 

This is the Debate of the Day on RFI. 

With : 

- Hubert Védrine

, former Minister of Foreign Affairs  

- Valérie Masson-Delmotte

, researcher in climate sciences at Paris Saclay and co-president of working group 1 of the

IPCC

(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), author of the article " 

Don't look up : can satire lead to a start?

 » published on

The Conversation  website

- Marine Yzquierdo

, lawyer, member of the association

Our affair with all

 which took part in the

Affair of the century

. 

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