[Suivi lecture] Claire C

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"Le monde se trompe, dit Bobi. Vous croyez que c'est ce que vous gardez qui vous fait riche. On vous l'a dit. Moi je vous dis que c'est ce que vous donnez qui vous fait riche. Qu'est-ce que j'ai moi, regardez-moi."
Il se dressa. Il se fit voir. Il n'avait rien. Rien que son maillot et, dessous, sa peau. Il releva ses grands bras, agita ses longues mains vides. Rien. Rien que ses bras et ses mains.
"vous n'avez pas d'autre grange que cette grange là, dit-il en frappant la poitrine. Tout ce que vous entassez hors de votre coeur est perdu."

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Our lovely blue planet, the Earth, is the only home we know. Venus is too hot. Mars is too cold. But the Earth is just right, a heaven for humans. After all, we evolved here. But our congenial climate may be unstable. We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways. Is there any danger of driving the environment of the Earth toward the planetary Hell of Venus or the global ice age of Mars? The simple answer is that nobody knows. The study of the global climate, the comparison of the Earth with other worlds, are subjects in their earliest stages of development. They are fields that are poorly and grudgingly funded. In our ignorance, we continue to push and pull, to pollute the atmosphere and brighten the land, oblivious of the fact that the long-term consequences are largely unknown.
A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth. But we humans now represent a new and perhaps decisive factor. Our intelligence and our technology have given us the power to affect the climate. How will we use this power? Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? Do we value short-term advantages above the welfare of the Earth? Or will we think on longer time scales, with concern for our children and our grandchildren, to understand and protect the complex life-support systems of our planet? The Earth is a tiny and fragile world. It needs to be cherished”