Voilà un petit livre qui va à coup sûr passionner les adolescents. Pas seulement parce qu’il propose un état des lieux parfaitement clair de la planète – ce qu’ils ne trouvent pas encore à l’école ni dans les médias –, mais surtout parce que la nécessaire révolution des modes de pensée les concerne au premier chef. La raréfaction du pétrole et le réchauffement climatique vont tout changer : habitat, transports, alimentation, métiers, façons de vivre et de consommer. Catastrophe écologique puis sociale ? Si rien n'est fait, assurément. Mais aussi merveilleuse occasion de libérer sa créativité et son imagination, et de réfléchir en toute connaissance de cause à son métier de demain. Les « drogués du pétrole » que sont les parents d’aujourd’hui auront-ils des enfants plus clairvoyants et plus sages ? Ce livre peut y contribuer.

This essay does not deny the 0.6-0.8°C increase in global temperature that took place during the 20th century. It tries to understand how and why this simple fact has been transformed into a militant social movement. A clue is found in Hanna Arendt analyses of ideologies (based on the nazi and soviet totalitarianisms). All the key features of an ideology are present in “warmism”: a monocausal explanation of everything and anything; a reference/reverence to “science”; a massive intervention of the State; a total war on a terrible evil, CO2, designated as enemy n°1 (although terrorism is now becoming a serious competitor), and on all lukewarmers; and finally, a popular success. The book argues that the equation IPCC = Science is highly questionable, and that the consequences drawn and the projections/predictions made (for year 2,100) are even more fragile. It shows that the dominant warmist catechism recited by politicians and media goes much beyond this questionable scientific basis. The medicines proposed and imposed under the pretext of “saving the planet” are discussed, and shown to be generally unrealistic and regressive. In particular, contrary to what is claimed by our modern prophets, they would prevent countries of Africa and South-East Asia, which are, at last, beginning to get themselves out of misery, to stop doing so. In short, warmism is the ideology of the day, and it is dangerous like all ideologies.

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This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.