BEACH RESORT

We have to admit it—our lives today are soaked in oil. Not just in transportation, but in our clothing, our food, our buildings. Everything we consume is entirely dependent on fossil fuels.
The paradox is that 2050 is just around the corner, and waking up a few years before that deadline won’t be enough. We need to slow the machine down now. What we need is a real revolution—and it won’t be easy. Pretending otherwise is pointless.
The Earth’s average temperature rises every year. Everyone can feel the disruptions—from torrential rains and powerful winds to extreme heat waves. Combined with unprecedented humidity, heat waves are becoming unbearable. Air conditioning is no longer a luxury but a necessity in the hottest regions and for the most vulnerable. In just 30 years, annual air conditioner sales have tripled worldwide. Today, cooling accounts for 10% of global electricity consumption—equal to the energy used by all other household appliances combined. And that number could triple by 2050.
It’s a vicious cycle. The hotter it gets, the more we cool our buildings. The more we cool, the more energy we consume—further heating the atmosphere. We have never blown both hot and cold as much as we do now, and that should make us think. The paradox is glaring—it is a terrible adaptation.

Excerpt from the film Nature: For a Reconciliation
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Co-written with Anne-Sophie Novel
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