On conna\u00eet bien s\u00fbr les pol\u00e9miques autour de la position US sur la lutte contre le r\u00e9chauffement climatique, et les grandes lignes de la position du pr\u00e9sident US sur la question. L’initiative US<\/a> annonc\u00e9e le 31 mai renforce l’int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les questions qu’on peut se poser \u00e0 propos de la position personnelle de GW. Sur son site Consortiumnews.Com<\/em>, Robert Parry donne certains \u00e9l\u00e9ments de r\u00e9ponse, dans un texte mis hier<\/a> en ligne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tParry note :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abSince running for the presidency in 2000, Bush has justified his foot-dragging on the issue, in part, through reliance on coal-industry-financed research embracing the same notion expressed by Bush’s NASA administrator Michael Griffin, that global warming may turn out to be a good thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFor instance, in a major energy policy address on September 29, 2000, candidate Bush turned to research from the Greening Earth Society, a think tank financed by the Western Fuels Association, a cooperative owned by seven coal-burning utilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn the speech, Bush offered the surprising assessment that technological breakthroughs, such as the Internet, were draining the nation’s electrical grid and required construction of many new power plants, including coal-fired generators.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbToday, the equipment needed to power the Internet consumes 8 percent of all the electricity produced in the United States, Bush declared, an assertion that drew little press attention but astounded many energy experts who consider the Internet and similar advances, on balance, a way to improve productivity and reduce energy demands.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tParry r\u00e9f\u00e9rence un texte publi\u00e9 sur son propre site en date du 9 octobre 2000<\/a>, qui commentait le discours sur l’\u00e9nergie prononc\u00e9 le 29 septembre 2000 par le candidat r\u00e9publicain, le gouverneur GW Bush. Ce texte se terminait par ce commentaire en forme de pr\u00e9vision : \u00abThese figures contradict the assumptions underlying Gov. Bush’s energy policy address. Beyond that, Bush’s acceptance of a coal-industry-financed study as the foundation for U.S. government policy suggests an energy agenda during a Bush-Cheney administration tilting toward segments of the business community most opposed to environmental protections.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa d\u00e9claration du directeur de la NASA Michael Griffin \u00e0 laquelle fait allusion Parry dans l’extrait de son texte du 1er juin a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite le 31 mai, le m\u00eame jour o\u00f9 l’initiative de GW Bush \u00e9tait rendue publique. Parry la pr\u00e9sente de cette fa\u00e7on :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn a National Public Radio interview broadcast the same day, Bush’s NASA chief Griffin indicated that his own aspirational goal might be to do nothing as he voiced support for the Greening Earth Society’s view that global warming and the melting ice caps might turn out to be a positive.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbI am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with, Griffin said. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of earth’s climate today is the optimal climate. I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that’s a rather arrogant position for people to take.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette position est celle qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e par divers lobbies<\/em> travaillant pour les industries oppos\u00e9es \u00e0 toute mesure contre le r\u00e9chauffement climatique, notamment depuis les d\u00e9bats en marge des n\u00e9gociations de Kyoto. Elle est effectivement bas\u00e9e sur la satisfaction impliqu\u00e9e par un changement de climat plut\u00f4t que sur l’argument que ce changement de climat n’est pas r\u00e9el. Dans tous les cas, et en tenant compte \u00e9videmment de la complexit\u00e9 et de la suspicion justement attach\u00e9es aux motifs de ces prises de position, le constat qu’on doit faire est double :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t La question du r\u00e9chauffement climatique ne peut \u00eatre parcellis\u00e9e et r\u00e9duite \u00e0 la question du fera-t-il plus chaud demain?, et des avantages suppos\u00e9s, y compris pour l’industrie des vacances, de ce suppl\u00e9ment de chaleur. Elle doit \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9e en fonction des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s d\u00e9mographiques, \u00e9conomiques et politiques du monde et de l’existence d’un syst\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la civilisation de plus en plus tourn\u00e9 vers des conditions artificielles manipul\u00e9es par ceux qui les ont cr\u00e9\u00e9es et de moins en moins adaptables \u00e0 des conditions naturelles changeantes. Le soi-disant catastrophisme des adversaires du changement climatique est moins justifi\u00e9 par ce changement que par la confrontation du rythme de ce changement et de l’inadaptation grandissante de notre syst\u00e8me de civilisation \u00e0 ce changement, inadaptation due notamment au m\u00e9pris du syst\u00e8me pour les conditions naturelles du monde.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t On retrouve dans ces conceptions et ces prises de position (Bush, Griffin) tous les clich\u00e9s de l’am\u00e9ricanisme le plus grossi\u00e8rement et le plus agressivement mystique, tel qu’il fut \u00e9labor\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es 1930 en r\u00e9action \u00e0 la politique de Roosevelt pour sortir les USA de la Grande D\u00e9pression. (Cet am\u00e9ricanisme a \u00e9t\u00e9 remis en selle sans restriction depuis le Manifeste Powell<\/a> de 1971.) Il s’agit d’une version modernis\u00e9e et pasteuris\u00e9e de l’antienne du progr\u00e8s : ma\u00eetrise et transformation du monde par le triomphe de la technologie, mysticisme de la puissance \u00e9conomique et de sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 transformer la nature, supr\u00e9matisme \u00e9conomiste anglo-saxon (branche am\u00e9ricaniste).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 2 juin 2007 \u00e0 05H26<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On conna\u00eet bien s\u00fbr les pol\u00e9miques autour de la position US sur la lutte contre le r\u00e9chauffement climatique, et les grandes lignes de la position du pr\u00e9sident US sur la question. L’initiative US annonc\u00e9e le 31 mai renforce l’int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les questions qu’on peut se poser \u00e0 propos de la position personnelle de GW. 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