For the oceans, « a last call before collapse » – Liberation

The year 2024 was the warmest ever recorded, the first in exceed the 1.5 ° C warranty threshold. The objective established in the Paris Agreement is escaping us, but we continue our race towards the abyss. This is therefore a last call before collapse. An ultimatum to save us all, to reverse this inexorable mechanics which destroys the climate, the ocean and the living, which has been initiated by human excess, and which can only be altered by a major collective and political reaction.

We are not fatalists. But we were wrong. Collectively. We were too patient, too optimistic. We have thought that scientific alerts and large -scale citizen mobilizations would be heard. We have not been firm enough, and the window closes quickly. The ocean, our planetary thermostat, is at a critical moment of rocking. So far, it has been our best ally in the face of climate change, absorbing almost 30 % of our CO2 emissions and stabilizing the Earth system. But The inexorable elevation of temperatures on the surface of the ocean Now generates extreme climatic events, more frequent and more intense, with appalling human consequences.

In a few days, the President of the Republic will host an international summit for the ocean in Paris. In June, France will be the host of the third United Nations Conference for the Ocean. While the French fleet of bottom trawlers Spray some 600,000 km² each year plains, forests and submarine mountainswe, organizations and collectives committed to climate and social justice, launch this solemn ultimatum to our leaders and the whole of society: we must protect the ocean. Our future depends on it. Each refusal to protect the ocean, each deleterious action to perpetuate its destruction brings us closer to a point of no return. Global warming is already responsible for the death of four million lives human and, if we continue on our momentum, it is four billion human lives that are directly threatened. This is not an opinion. It’s a fact. Science is clear, the observation is irrefutable.

Each compromise with The industrial lobbies of fishing and fossil fuel is thus similar to direct damage to life. We can no longer act as if we did not know the consequences of our actions and favor the short -term profits of manufacturers to maintaining the biosphere. Do not radically transform the fishing and aquaculture sector, organized by and for industrialists using destructive techniques, constitutes deliberate violence towards the living. Not to ban the development of any new fossil project is to make yourself an accomplice in the climate disaster that threatens to sweep us.

Today we pay the price of irresponsibility of our political decision -makers. But hope nevertheless remains in immediate and radical action, in our collective capacity to respond to the urgency which is imposed on us. France, as a second world maritime power, must take responsibility. And it starts now. By establishing real Protected sea areas In 30 % of our waters, where infrastructure and industrial activities and trawling are prohibited. By placing 10 % of our water under strict protection, in order to allow the restoration of biodiversity and protection of the ocean carbon well. By disarming industrial fishing, the first cause of destruction of the ocean. By stopping the exploitation of endangered species. By decreeing the end of fossil fuels, by prohibiting the opening of new fossil projects. On this condition only we can look at the future with hope. We call politicians to a start. A burst of conscience, courage and action. It is not too late to avoid the worst. But there is midnight less one.

First signatories: Claire Nouvian, de Bloom, François Sarano, of Longitude 181, Nathalie Ille, of Women for Sea, Lou Welgryn, Data for Good, Hélène Binet, Makessense, Muriel Papin, de No Plastic in My Sea, Malaury Morin, de Blutopia, Patrice Office, of Ocean Academy, Hélène Granouillac, Rodolphe Landemaine, from the wild domain Le Costil, Philippe Garcia, Defense of Aquatic circles, Marie-Laure Retureau, from Bleue, Eloire Damien, Naturdrive, Bruno Dumontet, of Expedition Med, Philippe Boré, from Maiouri Nature Guyane, Curty Thierry, Constructive current, Mathilde Brouet, of Samy, Nicolle Reine-Tonbtix, from Rebellion extinction, Armel Prieur, Du Account Carbon, Pierre Gallo-Beauvais, du Relais Jeune, Lucile Cornet-Vernet, from Maison de l’Artemisia, Aymeric Bein, Shark Citizen, Jeanson Barbara, Ceta’maore, Cécile Bernardon, Planet Peles, Cathy Lamri, Valérie Omnes-Collin, de Noé, Saloma Anjara, Cetamada, Jérôme Liévois, De Adrastia, Antoine Mondou, the Coral Planters, Fabienne Rossier, Sharks Mission France, Sarah Chouraqui, Wings of the Ocean, Camille Lecharpentier, young ambassadors for the climates (Jac) Resak, Matthieu Lapinski, of Ailerons, Marina Yakovlev, from Ecoyako, Nicolas Imbert, from Green Cross France Territories, Jade Tellier, of The Coral Planters, Salomé Guilbert de Déclic Collectif. Here is the link to all signatures.