hier<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abProfessor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice of a second nuclear age and a period of exceptional climate change, both of which could destroy the planet as we know it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe was speaking at the Royal Society in London yesterday at a conference organised by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which has decided to move the minute hand of its \u00a0\u00bbDoomsday Clock\u00a0\u00bb forward to five minutes to midnight to reflect the increased dangers faced by the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbAs we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age and a period of unprecedented climate change, scientists have a special responsibility, once again, to inform the public and to advise leaders about the perils that humanity faces, Professor Hawking said. As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever change life on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs citizens of the world, we have a duty to share that knowledge. We have a duty, as well, to alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day, and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWe are here today to outline the results of the Bulletin’s recent deliberations and to warn the public about the deteriorating state of world and planetary affairs by moving the hand of the clock, Professor Hawking said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLord Rees of Ludlow, pr\u00e9sident de the Royal Society, a parl\u00e9 en m\u00eame temps que Hawkins pour affirmer que l’effet des activit\u00e9s humaines sur la biosph\u00e8re, le climat et les oc\u00e9ans est sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Le savant appelle ces menaces n\u00e9es de la d\u00e9gradation de l’environnement des menaces sans ennemis (par opposition aux menaces d’ordre politique et id\u00e9ologique, de nature humaine directement identifi\u00e9es). Il consid\u00e8re qu’elles doivent \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme une priorit\u00e9 politique au moins aussi forte que les menaces (affrontements nucl\u00e9aires) que connut l’humanit\u00e9 durant la Guerre froide. Lord Rees observe que les technologies au XXI\u00e8me si\u00e8cle \u00abcould offer immense opportunities to everyone but it would also present new threats that were more diverse and more intractable than those posed by nuclear weapons<\/em>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDeux points fondamentaux doivent \u00eatre soulign\u00e9s \u00e0 l’occasion de cette pr\u00e9sentation de cette mise \u00e0 l’heure de la Doomsday Clock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Le premier est la politisation acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e de la crise climatique, dans le bon sens du terme. La crise climatique est en train de prendre une place fondamentale, aussi importante que les mati\u00e8res politiques et id\u00e9ologiques les plus fondamentales. Le fait qu’elle soit consid\u00e9r\u00e9e de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on que le danger d’affrontement nucl\u00e9aire, qui est un \u00e9v\u00e9nement hautement politique, est significatif.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t La mobilisation \u00e9vidente et g\u00e9n\u00e9rale du monde scientifique devrait susciter et s’accompagner d’une \u00e9volution psychologique et intellectuelle essentielle. L’optimisme scientiste, qui est la base du progr\u00e8s, est en train de se transformer, devant les cons\u00e9quences du progr\u00e8s technologique, en pessimisme. Paradoxalement par rapport \u00e0 l’id\u00e9e optimiste qui s’attache \u00e0 la science selon la vision moderniste du monde, c’est un pessimisme scientiste qui est en train de na\u00eetre. Une telle \u00e9volution intellectuelle serait une v\u00e9ritable contre-r\u00e9volution copernicienne, c’est-\u00e0-dire une orientation radicalement diff\u00e9rente jusqu’\u00e0 l’oppos\u00e9 de celle des quatre si\u00e8cles qui ont pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 (\u00e0 part le pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent de la bombe atomique qui, pendant cinq ans, de 1945- 1950, avait provoqu\u00e9 une m\u00eame vague de pessimisme scientiste, qui fut prestement \u00e9touff\u00e9e).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 19 janvier 2007 \u00e0 08H38<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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