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Le Grand Défi...
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The Great Challenge…
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With a barrel of oil whose price has quintuplet in 5 years and who
unrelentingly approaches the threshold symbolic system of dollar the liter
(159 dollars the barrel), we enter much more quickly than envisaged
a new economic era whose great challenge became
the substitution of L? energy by L? information on all the levels of
production and D? organization of our companies.

Qu is estimated? there remain approximately 160 billion tons of conventional
oil to extract. By supposing that world consumption
remains on its current level - 4 billion tons per annum - it thus
remains us hardly more than 40 years of consumption. However, according to L? Could IEA,
the world consumption of oil pass from 4 to 6 billion
tons D? here 2030 because in particular of the accelerated economic
development of L? Asia.

MDI concept



Admittedly, these estimates do not take account of the reserves in the form
of nonconventional oil, bituminous schisms, deep oil, nor
of progress which can intervene in the rate of recovery of
the layers but these variables do not change basically gives it
and will be able to only to save us one or two decades
additional. L? exploitation of this nonconventional oil has in
in addition to an energy and environmental cost considerable.

Broadly power consumption of L? humanity S? with a little more than
10 gigatonnes D raises? oil equivalent per annum and oil
thus represents alone nearly 40% of this world
consumption.

We can of course bet, as the United States does it, on
L? technological innovation, to accelerate the swing towards
“L? after oil” but S? in giving exclusively to technology
(qu? it S? acts of clean coal “, carbon sequestration,
L? does hydrogen or of renewable energies), without basically calling into
question our ways of life, concern with my direction L? dangerous
illusion. We must indeed change prospect D
radically? approach and to admit that the true challenge does consist D? access to reorganize
our economies and our companies so as to reduce to the source our
requirements in energy and to found in theory generalized the research
of energy sobriety and D? a écocompatible economic growth.

Knowing qu? human on two lives now in the cities, that
supposes in particular a major reorientation of our designs and
political D? town planning, D? transport and regional planning
in order to contain L? urban spreading out and to reconsider our towns of way
to optimize their energy effectiveness and their ecological print
by conceiving urban units which will integrate, instead of dissociating
them, poles of work, housing and leisures.

This question of L? town planning and of transport is capital out of
energy and environmental matter. A study of MIT has for
shown example that the average power consumption D? an inhabitant
D? Atlanta, American city with L? was dispersed town planning, 7 times
larger than that D? an inhabitant of Barcelona, Mediterranean city with
L? dense town planning. Even if that N? in a country where many families
are not easy dream to live in a house, our
political leaders must have courage D? to begin this debate on
the urban thickening. In does thirty years, the traversed average distance
convey some to go of its residence to its work
was multiplied by three and we must absolutely reverse this tendency
which N? is more bearable, neither economically nor ecologically.

We must also have courage D? to begin a true democratic
debate on the question of the restriction of L? use of
L? car in the centres town and of L? introduction of flexible
urban tolls according to the number of passengers, L? hour or
of the type of vehicle. One can imagine to be further granting
reductions D? taxes or of taxes to the companies or particularly
sober energy matter private individuals. It is also necessary,
thanks to a legislative and tax framework adapted, to support L? rise of
the telecommuting so qu? it represents D? here 10 years 20% of the time devoted
to the activities of public and deprived services.

Recent scientific studies show that, taking into account the times
related to L? thermal inertia of the oceans, if we do want to stabilize
the climate, it is necessary for us not only to reduce half on a world level
our gas emissions for purpose of greenhouse but to tighten with a completely
décarbonnée energy production D? here end of this century.

To achieve such objectives, the massive development, even of
several orders of magnitude, production D? renewable energy
(including the nuclear power), well qu? absolutely necessary, N? is qu?
do a partial and insufficient answer and we owe D? access to reorganize
in-depth our economies and our companies around the concept of
sobriety energy and informational and cognitive productivity
by reducing to the source our total requirements in energy and
improving in a considerable way L? effectiveness and the energetic efficiency
in L? together human activities.

Will our civilization have to learn how to produce and transform
the maximum D? information in knowledge and wealths of using
the minimum D? energy and by systematically seeking the ecological added
value which will have simultaneously to preserve the seriously threatened
biodiversity, to develop and use materials and natural products and
to integrate recycling and L? ecocompatibility of L? together
industrial and human productions as of their design.

But, for this stage of reflexion, it is necessary to avoid any ideological
or philosophical misunderstanding: does such an objective by no means mean
the tender with the dangerous myth of the return to a idealized, very
powerful nature and virgin who N? existed forever. Since
the Neolithic era, L? man N? ceased deeply transforming nature
and its environment to survive then to improve its living conditions
and those which, S? locking up in new forms D? do integrism and
of conservatism, and call into question the need for L? innovation
and of scientific progress, in particular in sciences of alive,
are mistaken in combat and want to answer in a simplistic and dogmatic
way complex and total planetary challenges.

To make a success of this change of civilization, L? does mankind have
more than ever to mobilize all its capacities D? innovation, not
only in the scientific and technical fields but also
in the social, economic and democratic fields,
to conceive new fashions and tools of governorship, regulation and
control socio-policies. It belongs to us, without being locked up
within reducing frameworks of thought, to make proof D? creative
audacity and D? to be with the moral and intellectual height immense
challenges which our planet must take up.

July 24, 2008 | 4:00 PM Comments  0 comments

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