Exhibitions, conferences, shows… around climate issues, it’s the COP from Here, from this Monday, November 11 and until the 24th, at Nimes. A watchword: “we will not go to Baku“. And a nod to COP 29a big climate mass at the global level, which will be held from this Monday at Baku in Azerbaijan.
“It is a general system that is dysfunctional. As long as we take the problems separately from the others, we will achieve almost nothing. These things are written in black and white in IPCC reports“, expose Jacques Sarda, co-president of Nîmes in transitionat the origin of the COP d’Ici. On the program for the ICI COP, for its 2nd edition, waste management : “We’ve been supposed to sort packaging for over 25 years and it’s still not done well. There we started sorting bio-waste. I think it’s going to take a long time to get started, but it’s just organization. It’s not complicated to have a bucket for bio-waste, to put it down in a small container in the street, to have compost in your garden or a worm composter on your balcony.”
“We mistake our desires for needs”
For Jacques Sarda, it is a problem of limitsconstantly outdated, which arises: “since the post-war period, we have developed a system where we confuse our desires and our needs. We mistake our desires for needs“, he explains. “We live well above the level we should be able to exploit. It’s hard to go back. We are a bit like drug addicts or alcoholics. We went out of bounds. It’s like an individual who has too high a blood alcohol level, too high a blood sugar level, a blood fat level, etc..”
Behind these excesses, in part, the economy : “it cannot be the alpha and omega of our future policies. We are both in excess and in lack. The excess in our exploitation of nature and the lack from a social point of view: there are lots of people dying of hunger, inequalities between men and women, lots of people do not live in democracies, etc. There are shortages in some places and surpluses in others, we cannot be in a safe environment.“
When we ask Jacques Sarda what the priority in our department of Gardregularly affected by droughts or floods, he replies: “We should anticipate the question of zero net artificialization even more quickly. In Jonquières-Saint-Vincent, there is a subdivision of 270 housing units under construction. When we ask the mayor: do you have 270 jobs to fill? The answer is no. These people are going to work in Nîmes and Arles, so we are creating another flow. It is not coherent to want to create housing in Jonquières, a place totally devoid of employment. Same in Générac. But it’s not easy, because you have to convince people that the garden pavilion model is not the right one.“
