Faced with climate change. What consequences and what solutions for the populations and our territory? At the invitation of Génération Écologie de Loire-Atlantique, the Nantais Citizen Movement and Ré-action Commune, Alexandre Florentin councilor of Paris (president of the Paris 50°C mission), Agnès Grivaux (lecturer in social and political philosophy at the University of Nantes), Lionel Salvayre (Meteo France PdL referent), Amélie Suire (founder Anova), Sandra Haize (co-founder of Ré-Hab), business leaders and local elected officials met on last November 9 in Nantes for a conference-debate “Nantes at 50°C: how to adapt?”
How can we cope with the now almost certainty that 2023 will be the hottest year in the last 125,000 years?
After the record temperatures of June, July, August, September, October is 1.7°C warmer than the average of the pre-industrial era according to the European Copernicus observatory. Record temperature which resulted in droughts and famines, devastating fires, stronger hurricanes due to overheating oceans. Until recently, talking about 50°C in cities seemed crazy… But over the last two years, the thermometer has climbed to 51°C in India. It was 42°C in Bouguenais, a town near Nantes. What is still only a foretaste of climate change must push us to prepare for the consequences of past global inaction.
So, should we cook, flee or act? to use a formula from the Paris at 50°C mission report?
How will we adapt? It is not just from a technical or technological or only political angle that we will have to find solutions, but also from a philosophical angle: all the questions that human beings can ask themselves about themselves. and examine the answers it can provide. Because we are at a historic turning point, a turning point where we must rethink our way of living in the city, working there, consuming, producing, living and moving around, where we must reinvent our relationship with environment, nature and its resources.
Faced with climate change, what consequences and what solutions for populations and the territory? The answers to these questions must be collective, with all the stakeholders: citizens, from the business world or even politicians as we debated in Nantes.
The Nantes conference-debate with the participation of a varied panel of high-level women and men, provided a better understanding of the impact of super heat waves on our daily lives, both in terms of housing, water, energy, work, health and mobility.
It also allowed constructive discussions to better understand how to further protect the people of Nantes while not worsening the current situation.
An appointment is made to continue the discussions.
Elhadi Azzi, municipal councilor and metropolitan councilor of Nantes, Antoine Gilles, founding member of Ré-action Commune, Gaëlle Rougeron, regional councilor Pays de la Loire
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