Écologie et engagement

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Écologie et engagement

Linked axes

Combines Innovations scientifiques et responsabilité, Citoyenneté et mondes virtuels and Diversité et inclusion. Problematic: How are English-speaking citizens turning ecological awareness into action?

Key actors

• Greta Thunberg — Swedish activist whose Skolstrejk för klimatet (2018) launched Fridays for Future.
• Extinction Rebellion — UK movement of civil disobedience (founded 2018).
• Sir David Attenborough — narrator of Planet Earth and A Life on Our Planet (2020).
• Bill McKibben — founder of 350.org.
• Indigenous activists — Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (2016).

Recent turning points

• 2015 — Paris Agreement.
• 2019 — UK becomes the first G7 country to legislate net zero by 2050.
• 2021 — Glasgow COP26.
• 2022 — Inflation Reduction Act in the USA (USD 370 bn for clean energy).
• 2023 — Loss and Damage Fund agreed at COP27.

Vocabulary

Forms of citizen engagement

• Lifestyle changes: plant-based diet, reduced flying, second-hand fashion.
• Civil disobedience: roadblocks, gluings to artworks (Just Stop Oil).
• Strategic litigation: youths suing governments (Juliana v. United States; ClientEarth).
• Political mobilisation: green parties, youth wings, voter campaigns.

Cultural references

• Documentaries: An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Before the Flood (2016), Seaspiracy (2021).
• Cli-fi novels: Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam trilogy; Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (2020).
• Speeches: Thunberg at the UN ("How dare you?", 2019).

Sample paragraph

When schoolchildren left their classrooms in 2019, they were not asking for a new app: they were demanding a planet. Their strike forced governments to acknowledge that climate inaction is not just an environmental issue but a political one — about who decides, who pays and who is heard.