Global warming does not concern us

So I've heard this phrase a million times: "Me? Oh no, I'm not at all concerned by global warming, you know." And usually, I really want to trip them, but I don't because I'm all about non-violence (LOL).

So today I want to tell you that we are really concerned by global warming. Already this summer, Saint-Etienne was the hottest city in France, and we experienced 40/41/42 degrees, but no one is worried. "Just install AC in your apartment, lol." Oh right, my bad. Still no snow (neither here nor in the mountains), glaciers are shrinking, but "they'll put artificial snow at the resorts, no need to worry," well yes, obviously another problem solved.

The melting ice five years ago didn't worry many people; polar bears with nothing to eat, becoming emaciated, that doesn't concern us either, and obviously, it's not related.

If I were given a coin every time someone said that phrase, I think I'd be rich.

At what point are we not concerned by global warming in France? Well, the first example that comes to mind is all these overflowing rivers causing deaths, the rising sea, the melting glaciers. But that's all just in my eco-minded head. It's 16°C on December 17th, but that's completely normal too.

So yes, we're not in the Maldives, or Bangladesh; we won't be climate refugees because our country isn't going to disappear, but at some point, humanity has to do something.

It's hard to change our habits, to do even a tiny thing, but to do something (I apply "the hummingbird's share" quite a lot, as Pierre Rabhi says) is already good, but we still feel powerless.

Well, I'll admit I'm a little annoyed and tired. As soon as you seriously talk about ecology, clean energy, people think you're crazy. But no. I think in January I'll do a series of articles on how we can (slightly) change our practices in positive ways.

Besides, you know that ecology isn't just about eating seeds... or wearing cotton underwear!