Dystopia
Publié le 23/04/2022
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Dystopia
Matthew is a young high school student based in San Francisco.
He
has been involved in the “Youth for Climate” movement for two
years.
He is watching Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations
with his parents on TV.
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish activist who has
been involved in the ecologist party for two years.
She is giving her
speech at the United Nations on the 10 th anniversary of the signing of
the Paris Agreement : “We are in the year 2026.
The 1.5° temperature
limit set by the last Paris Agreement has been exceeded.
Florida, the
Netherlands, Bangladesh, India, and many other areas of the world
are affected by rising waters.
Bee-killing insecticides have caused a
massacre among pollinating insects.
The southern United States is
frequently hit by violent storms and the Japanese archipelago is
shaken by earthquakes daily.
Global warming has killed most of the
coral reefs, depriving marine animals of their main source of food.
We, governments, are trying to take action at all costs, but our impact
is way too small compared to the scale of the global situation.
Young
people have difficulty projecting themselves into the future in the
world in which they live.”
The day after, Matthew joins one of the “Youth for Climate”
demonstrations that are taking place all over the world.
“ One planet,
one chance!”, “Trees on, global warming gone!”, “Global warming will
cook you” are shouting young demonstrators.
They have one goal :
leaving the cities to go and live by themselves in the isolated
countryside.
Indeed, seeing that the resources in fossil energy, water,
food, etc.
tend to be exhausted very quickly, cultivate their own food,
produce their own electricity, have their own water network, seems
to be the ideal solution for the young generation.
And so, hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the
world, including Matthew, are invading the countryside of their
countries to settle there and live in self-sufficiency.
During the first
two years, times are hard because they lack food, the growing of
fruits, vegetables and seeds being long and difficult.
On the other
hand, their camps are well installed and their life in community.
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