Un été en hiver - 15/05/2023 - Vidéo Dailymotion

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00:00 [Music]

00:11 And if the question of drinking water is one of the great challenges of our society,

00:17 since finally, with global warming, the anger of the sky,

00:21 the most illustrious meteorologists who agree that we are at the mercy of unexpected climatic events,

00:29 summer as winter and winter as summer, since we have to admit all these parameters,

00:34 we can no longer pretend.

00:37 The dams, however many they are, do what they can with the water that the sky wants to give them.

00:43 They can't do everything.

00:45 The economy of resources is a question that we are all asking ourselves,

00:49 individually, whether we are rich or poor, citizen or rural.

00:55 The needs vary, but the question is the same, do I have enough water to drink,

01:00 to do the dishes, the laundry, and if I have a few pots of flowers, can I water them?

01:05 We would almost be tempted to say, a bit like a pirouette,

01:09 that governments are a bit like dams, they do what they can with the resources they have.

01:15 If end-of-chain consumers are not aware of the urgency of the situation,

01:21 of the absolute need to regulate their water consumption and to have a reasonable use,

01:28 governments are at some point powerless.

01:32 A water consumer is not just a person who drinks, it's not just you and me,

01:37 it's a water consumer, it's someone who is a citizen, a responsible person,

01:42 who operates a function in a good that is common and precious to us, and this good is water.

01:48 We can no longer outlaw ourselves, consume wrongfully and through the earth.

01:53 It is generous, but it cannot be an accomplice to our consumerist extravagances.

01:59 It may be better, by the way, we often think,

02:04 in "Sans Détour", man is the only animal that deploys so much energy to destroy its ecosystem,

02:11 as if it were caught in a non-virtuous spiral, a madness of consumption,

02:17 but also of the drying of its own resources.

02:20 We overconsume what is water to us, and this is not possible, and it is no longer possible.

02:28 This is why we are facing one of the great challenges of our time.

02:33 The responsibility of water consumption is personal, social, collective, human.

02:40 I say "human" because defending water, access to water, is to defend what is fundamental to the essence of humanity.

02:49 It is therefore a survival issue, and like all survival issues, this one is not negotiable.

02:55 We have no choice, we must be vigilant as to our water consumption, and this is as much for you as for me.

03:05 (Music)

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