27 mai<\/a> et cela est plein d’int\u00e9r\u00eat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tMonbiot aborde notamment deux sujets inextricablement li\u00e9s, qui forment un cas assez solide pour nous convaincre que la crise du prix du p\u00e9trole en tant que telle, avant de devenir la crise du p\u00e9trole (crise de l’\u00e9puisement de la ressource), met \u00e0 jour les contradictions de notre syst\u00e8me dans ses tentatives de lutte contre les crises auxquelles il est confront\u00e9. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t La question des r\u00e9actions engendr\u00e9s par la hausse massive du prix du p\u00e9trole. Monbiot observe que les effets de cette hausse, qui impliquent une r\u00e9duction de la consommation d’\u00e9nergie pour des raisons d’\u00e9conomie dans les activit\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques courantes, manifestent pour la premi\u00e8re fois un r\u00e9sultat tangible au niveau de la lutte contre les \u00e9missions de CO2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abWhat I know, and you may not, is that the high price of oil is currently the only factor implementing British government policy. The government claims that it is seeking to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, by encouraging people to use less fossil fuel. Now, for the first time in years, its wish has come true: people are driving and flying less. The AA reports that about a fifth of drivers are buying less fuel. A new study by the Worldwide Fund for Nature shows that businesses are encouraging their executives to use video conferences instead of flying. One of the most fuel-intensive industries of all, business-only air travel, has collapsed altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn other words, your restrictions on supply voluntary or otherwise are helping the government to meet its carbon targets<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Monbiot encha\u00eene directement sur l’attitude du gouvernement britannique, confront\u00e9 \u00e0 cette hausse du prix du p\u00e9trole alors qu’il s’est engag\u00e9 par ailleurs dans un programme cons\u00e9quent de lutte contre les \u00e9missions de CO2 dans le cadre de la lutte contre la crise climatique. Nous reprenons la citation ci-dessus exactement o\u00f9 nous l’avons laiss\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab So how does<\/em> [the UK’s government] respond? By angrily demanding that you remove them so that we can keep driving and flying as much as we did before. Last week, Gordon Brown averred that it’s a scandal that 40% of the oil is controlled by Opec, that their decisions can restrict the supply of oil to the rest of the world, and that at a time when oil is desperately needed, and supply needs to expand, that Opec can withhold supply from the market. In the United States, legislators have gone further: the House of Representatives has voted to bring a lawsuit against Opec’s member states, and Democratic senators are trying to block arms sales to your kingdom unless you raise production.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis illustrates one of our leaders’ delusions. They claim to wish to restrict the demand for fossil fuels, in order to address both climate change and energy security. At the same time, to quote Britain’s Department for Business, they seek to maximise economic recovery from their remaining oil, gas and coal reserves. They persist in believing that both policies can be pursued at once, apparently unaware that if fossil fuels are extracted they will be burnt, however much they claim to wish to reduce consumption. The only states that appear to be imposing restrictions on the supply of fuel are the members of Opec, about which Brown so bitterly complains. Your Majesty, we have gone mad, and you alone can cure our affliction, by keeping your taps shut.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tEffectivement, nous sommes \u00e0 un point d’int\u00e9gration de deux crises syst\u00e9miques sp\u00e9cifiques et des conceptions contradictoires qu’elles impliquent, et qui sont affirm\u00e9es par les m\u00eames entit\u00e9s (les m\u00eames gouvernements, les m\u00eames int\u00e9r\u00eats). La crise de l’environnement implique, pour qu’on lutte contre elle avec efficacit\u00e9, de r\u00e9duire les \u00e9missions de CO2 et donc la consommation d’\u00e9nergie. La crise du p\u00e9trole, pour l’instant manifest\u00e9e par la crise du prix du p\u00e9trole, n’est pour l’instant appr\u00e9hend\u00e9e que du point de vue \u00e9conomique et conduit ces m\u00eames entit\u00e9s \u00e0 r\u00e9clamer plus de p\u00e9trole pour faire baisser les prix, parce qu’on a besoin de plus de p\u00e9trole pour freiner la d\u00e9gradation des conditions \u00e9conomiques et relancer la croissance. Bien entendu, on se retrouve dans le cas de br\u00fbler plus d’\u00e9nergie, donc d’\u00e9mettre plus de CO2 et de contredire directement la lutte contre la crise climatique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tCe cas d’int\u00e9gration de ces deux crises est particuli\u00e8rement antagoniste. Il manifeste de cette fa\u00e7on la crise syst\u00e9mique centrale, o\u00f9 notre syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame est impliqu\u00e9 en tant que tel. Il met particuli\u00e8rement en lumi\u00e8re combien le fonctionnement de notre syst\u00e8me est le moteur de la crise climatique, selon les conditions de cette crise qu’on a d\u00e9termin\u00e9es, alors qu’on pr\u00e9tend en m\u00eame temps utiliser ce m\u00eame syst\u00e8me pour lutter contre la crise climatique. Cette contradiction, qui n’est pas pr\u00eate d’\u00eatre r\u00e9solue en raison de l’importance massive des facteurs en jeu et des tendances \u00e0 l’uvre, pousse l\u00e0 aussi vers une reconnaissance n\u00e9cessaire des caract\u00e8res fondamentaux de la crise centrale, celle de notre syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame. La pression des \u00e9v\u00e9nements va contribuer \u00e0 l’exacerbation de cette contradiction et va rendre de plus en plus fondamentale la pol\u00e9mique autour de notre syst\u00e8me, entre ceux qui le d\u00e9noncent au nom de l’urgence des crises syst\u00e9miques, et ceux qui le d\u00e9fendent (tentent de le d\u00e9fendre) tout en reconnaissant l’urgence des crises syst\u00e9miques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 27 mai 2008 \u00e0 19H01<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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