change the world
vast program I dream of humanity
some will tell you it’s a
unrealistic utopia but others think
that it’s a possible hope for
humanity is then in fact for
change the world
well maybe the best
way it might be to see if
already humanity has managed to make
positive changes already in the
years passed in the decades
past and well I propose tonight
to share with you a number
little known information but me
it seems fundamental that they
allow to have hope
today for tomorrow let’s take by
example extreme poverty in the countries
developing and well over the course of
last decades
it has drastically dropped in a very
important
about thirty years ago the
half of the people living in the
southern country and well been in this
extreme poverty
well it’s gone down a lot
a few decades another close theme
World hunger
there too drastic drop in hunger in
the world
to the point that for the first time in
the history of humanity we can hope
see the end of hunger in the
coming decades by 2030 2030 that’s
tomorrow then there are also problems
such as of course the media we
talk a lot about the war certainly the
media talk a lot but I believe
it’s important to contextualize that
in a broader vision
take for example what happened
since say the beginning of the century is
well done we see that most of the
dead by war well it was
during the two world wars but
today it’s a movie so good
heard I did not deny the reality of
things
every war is a drama every death
by war is a human drama
but still today there is
a lot less deaths for a reason
very simple is that wars our
faith were international wars
between state even world wars
and mortality amounted in
hundreds of thousands of people in
millions of people today these
international wars have almost
disappeared from the face of the earth ago
still very little and it’s the wars
civilians it’s by thousands of people
of course again it’s a drama
but it’s 100 times less or 1000
times less and if we look
if only since 1946, well
you see that the same there the curve she
Halladay is strongly downward
and there is a rise since a few
years due mainly the war in
syria but it’s a bib compared to this
that could be in others
decades
other problem will you tell me the
terrorism is certainly I’m not going
also deny this major problem that is the
terrorism and especially the year
2015 in France that was really
dramatic problematic but here too
I would like to contextualize in a way
wider
this year so dramatic and well the
same year there have been close to 4000
deaths by road accidents
there were about ten thousand deaths by
suicide
he would pile more than 70 thousand dead in
because of tobacco and that year there is
had 149 dead by the bombings then me
will you say but you do not have to compare
the incomparable it has nothing to do
but what I would especially emphasize
is that as a result of this wave
attacks and many people
were afraid to go out
they dared not go out anymore but if we did not
goes out more for the attacks one can not
no more going out for nothing you have to stay at
the house and even at home the
domestic accidents kill more than
attacks and above all and above all it is necessary
know that what terrorists are aiming for
were aimed strategic targets it
would attack I do not know a department
I do not know about others but he aims to
touch the population what is this
target terrorists and terrorize
the population and the best answer
that we can give them their pose
even well it is to refuse to enter
in this spiral of fear
another element of contextualizations that
seems to me very important the media
obviously we are talking about
media tell us about al Qaeda but what
that you have to know is that
organizations regularly
terrorists and well stop their
activity
let’s take some recent examples and this
are not the only ones here in ireland
in Spain in France in Colombia
then it ‘s not just the problems
social there is also crime
little question in passing in your opinion
how much to increase crime in
during the last decades in
West
think a little bit and well in
makes the gesture that I have nothing to do is
wrong because the meaning is like that
crime in the West has
drastically dropped these last
decades is the same in a certain
number of southern countries
take as an example France and more
especially the island of france with
very precise figures by the institute
medico-legal of Paris we can not
trafficked these numbers very well the
crime has been divided by three in
twenty years how come is it then that
we think so very often that the
crime increases
maybe the answer is in
the media place the facts and
especially crimes in the
media has tripled in fifteen years and that’s
for that we think that the
crime is increasing when in fact
they decrease
now let’s move on to the environment the
ozone layer
then the ozone layer is a real
problem because this layer that
frays and no longer protects us
well, we ‘ve been predicting cancers
by the millions on the surface of the earth
but I think about it
have you noticed that since a few
years the media speak to us
practically more ozone ah bah
it’s because the problem is in the process
to be settled you the problem is that
the media are talking to us when there are
problems and no longer speaks to us when
the problems are being solved
or when they are gone and well like
with 8 billion inhabitants on earth
there are inevitably problems
social ecological somewhere and we
is only he was asking for these
problems go ozone is very
interesting because today
compared to what was being done
30 years ago well the industrialists do not
produce almost more substances
destroying the area and the population the
company does not consume practically anymore
result the ozone layer is reforming and
it will be fully reformed in 2050 and
maybe even before it’s interesting
to know that but it’s even more
interesting to understand how that
it’s done and well the process has been a
man mostafa tolba director of the
UN agency for the environment and
who as a result of alert who had been
made by scholars on the problem
of the ozone layer and well managed to
to gather around the table and many
enemies of fierce opponents in
any case that was including
environmental activists
industrialists is also
environment ministers from a
number of countries around the world
well when these three parts
work together somehow
the state civil society and the market
that we can best solve the
problems and well actually he has
managed to that old opponents
become partners and work
together each with his responsibility
we solved the problem of the layer
ozone
it’s exactly the same process that
happened with the rhine depollution
then the rhin is a game gives you there
a bucolic image but it’s not that
that the rhine is also the biggest
global concentration of industries
petrochemical and steel
thirty years ago the rhine was a
open-air cesspool the river the most
polluted from Europe and one of the most
polluted in the world
today we can swim in the
rhin from the source up
the mouth and how is it done and
in much the same way a minister of
the environment of a northern country of
europe and bring these three together
parties I just talk
industrialists and environmental activists
environment ministers and that’s it
which together allowed to try to
find solutions
then there is in the environment there
not that pollution is not only
ozone there is also biodiversity and
I am quite lucid altogether
aware that if there are any real
problems especially I think like that
as a species the place the lions the
elephants and other but that’s
important to know that there are
successes it’s important to know
that there are positive results
take for example the surface of the parks
natural reserves in the world
she has practically doubled each
decade here it’s the numbers that are
here it is in millions of kilometers
squares well there are more and more of
reservations today that 10 years ago 20
years or 30 years in terms of species a
number of species is decreasing but a
number of species are growing
and are better
take an animal such as whale to
hump that is absolutely beautiful
especially with these jumps out of
the water well there are fifty
years of the whale population to
hump was really worrying
today she is doing very well
more impressive still the buffalo
of america
the american bison is passed to him
edge of extinction
a century ago today the
population is flourishing
the american bison are doing very very
well and in France by the way we have
also other species that were in
disappearing way there are some
years and who is doing well today
I take for example
the golden eagle the beaver the ibex and
taking an iconic species
the stork the white stork too
in France really went to the edge of
the disappearance 40 years ago there was
almost more storks in France
today there are storks
when in much larger quantity
and besides to the point that one can not
more talk today about stork
alsatian
the stork spread throughout the
france in front of all these results which
exist that are already there what are
the keys to this success because
finally what is important if we
wants to improve tomorrow’s situation the
better way it’s not just about
lamenting about the problems that
still exist is to try to see
how can we solve them
because I am clear there certainly
two billion people who are
out of hunger in 20 years but he in
still remains 800 million there are her
ozone that is partly regulated
now but there is warming
climate and so it is useful and
necessary even to draw inspiration from
successes to be able to stir them
type related tomorrow and as key to the
success
and although I offer these data there
first of all we need to
inspiring person of the people who
gives us optimism and hope
because if we watch let’s wear a
desperate look at the world and at the
planet and ben there’s nothing left to do
drop the arms and wait until the
final catastrophe but if we
has aspirant people who is us
well we can move forward
but of course it’s not just a
stake of individuals
it is also a challenge for collective action
and we know that for a number of
major problems such as malaria
or as the safeguarding of forests
various
elements and well we know that what is
the most effective and action
field community which is
people who work together who
engage together but yes if it is not
not enough they also have to have
decisions at the highest level and
so heads of state officials
political and well engages they need
on the one hand courage because for
some decisions sometimes it takes
go against the normal trend and I
take an example of more and more of
countries have abolished the death penalty
but of course it takes courage
when policy makers
responsible and well engaged in this
meaning it also takes humility
because they can not do everything
all by myself and I come back to what I
said a few moments ago
it is necessary to introduce
partnerships to establish
partnerships with civil society the
sauce to establish partnerships with
companies and that’s what is the
more effective in improving the
situation of the world
it is also necessary to have a
central value which is perseverance
because public opinion evolved
but it takes time but still there
has evidence that there is
evolution I take for example the
death penalty wars pollution
well it was themes that
seemed normal or a necessary it
there a few decades and today it
becomes more and more unacceptable
in the population we will not be able
advance that if li actually has a
changing attitudes and for that
last important element seems to me
the role of the media because the media
change our view of the world
maybe some of you have
a very negative view of the world before
to come maybe you still have it
but it could be that what I come
to say tonight which the media are talking about
little and that seems to me fundamental and well
and you did not know it and so our
look at the world and also modified by
the media gold gold it must be well
recognize that the media vision is
enough anxiety
it boosts us rather despair but
for some time and many
journalists understood that next to the
journalism of
problem it is necessary to develop
a solutions journalism because if
we want to change the world is good too
we have to present the good
new
and if you take for example the wording
solutions that is a number once a
year that libé publishes and who is
essentially filled with experiences
positive
well how do we say that’s the
best selling number of all year
well above the average of
year which proves in passing that the
good news can sell
contrary to what some people say
there is also an association for example
to the bearer of hope who makes the newspaper
Solutions is a site walkthrough park
we and then you probably have a
number of you for seeing this
movie tomorrow which is also full of
solutions and who made a cardboard in
the dark rooms with very little
advertising essentially through the mouth
at ear good all this maybe some
of you say good all this is
very nice he is very nice sir
up there but he has some glasses
roses
they see the world here we are pink what
life is beautiful all is well not
the whole question that is often put to me
it is to tell me it is very nice your
stuff but there is a major problem
the major problem is the others
everything would be fine did not know the others and
Well, I’m not sure that the problem
it’s the others
I have the impression that the problem
it’s this sentence
the problem is to think that the
problems come from others because
as long as we think like that, well we do not
do not we ourselves the effort it takes
and so I come to the following which has
writes this
you know in life we are entitled to
the mistake is contrary to what he
had told the school the mistake is not
a football so it’s nelson mandela
so we can not say that nelson
Mandela was a sweet naïve who did not
know nothing about life especially I
would like to point out something that’s
that not even ask yourself no
only he had his convictions
that they had the climb at all
nobody including his worst opponents
but mostly he made it a strategy
politics because you do not have to dream
when mandela came to power he did not
not a magic wand anyway
the hands that holds the reins of the
departments for example of the justice of
police and army
sc the whites and yes it does not change
everything from one day to the next and then
imagine that mandela tells them oh you
are all bad guys
you did us some criminal trouble
for dozens of years
go football or go to jail I am
not sure they will go there
went of their own accord on the other hand
risk we would have risked in this case there
to have a civil war and a return to
the starting square and maybe even worse
then certainly Serbian
South Africa is not a paradise
today but the most hell
that she was and I think he is good
to take inspiration from the example of mandela
because the example of mandela is
precisely how to say to make
opponents of the partners then certainly
certainly do not go the build do not come
not the ability to do everything he has
does but all of us small
citizens maybe our way
already to be able to change the world where
we are
well maybe it’s just
start talking with people
with people with whom
apparently we have nothing to say and
nothing to share I think it’s already
a first step and then there are others
not equally simply on the
plan of the environment everyone has his share
to bring and that can be the
public transportation to use use
more often than cars that can
to be there how to say eating
less meat because we know it
there is a direct effect on deforestation
from amazonia
for example in the professional universe
you have for example in
teaching today studies
showed that learning
cooperative is more effective than
competitive learning in terms
both academic results as well as
of atmosphere in the class of well-being
and self esteem respect students
teachers another ski example of
professionals in the world of health
and well those studies have also
showed that staff
medical nurses doctors who do
evidence of empathy for patients
and well that effects not only on
psychological well-being of the patient
but also about physical health and
so I want to say that facing
sometimes the darkness of the world that we
send back the media well maybe
than to have the bright smile of
Nelson Mandela may be an answer
face the darkness of the world that we
send back the media well everyone
between us maybe we turn on our
small light
thank you very much
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