00:00 plastic use, artificial sugar, video games, all that,
00:04 we must have given it.
00:05 A few weeks ago at the office, we received this book,
00:07 "Le Monde, mode d'emploi" by Jacques Attali.
00:10 Jacques Attali, for those who don't know,
00:12 is the one who whispers in the ears of the powerful.
00:14 He worked with François Mitterrand,
00:16 François Hollande or Emmanuel Macron.
00:18 He's not a prophet, he's a writer,
00:20 but he's a person we listen to.
00:22 In this book, he explains to us what might happen
00:25 in the next 30 years if we don't change,
00:28 we were able to talk to him about it.
00:29 "Le Monde, mode d'emploi", if we read it, we're afraid.
00:32 But because I say, "This is what happens if we don't do anything."
00:34 Because half of the book is dedicated to
00:36 what will happen between 2030, 2023 and 2050,
00:40 if we don't do anything.
00:41 You're a kind of Cassandre
00:43 that we want to contradict.
00:45 I'd like to.
00:46 I write it to create the conditions to be wrong.
00:49 I give solutions and I dream of helping,
00:52 modestly by my work,
00:54 to awaken enough consciousness
00:56 so that the most black predictions
00:58 that we can make don't come true.
01:00 Do you feel that you and I have grown up in a world
01:03 in which our children will not be able to grow up?
01:05 There will be a lot of things that will remain,
01:07 but we could also live much better
01:09 by giving up things from the past.
01:11 If they live without cars,
01:13 without fast fashion,
01:14 without video games,
01:16 without artificial sugar,
01:17 without tobacco, without drugs, all the better.
01:19 I have two little girls, what would you tell them?
01:21 I would tell them to be curious,
01:23 to have the "niak", the will, the energy.
01:26 And I would tell them to try to understand,
01:29 to feel in you the extraordinary pleasure of being useful.
01:32 "Useful", it can be many different things.
01:35 It can be useful in the sense of making more money.
01:38 No, no.
01:39 It can be useful in the sense of being useful for oneself.
01:42 It's good, but it's not enough.
01:43 You have to be useful for others too,
01:45 useful for those who are not yet born.
01:47 Take a baker.
01:48 If he manages to get customers to tell him,
01:52 "It's great and it's very good what you've done."
01:54 He finds pleasure in himself.
01:56 So you have to discover the extreme pleasure
01:59 that you can have in being altruistic.
02:01 You always have to have two children by your side,
02:04 the one you were at 10 years old and your grandson.
02:07 And always act thinking about what I thought when I was 10 years old
02:11 and what I do useful for my grandson.
02:13 Always act in the interest of your daughters
02:17 when they are 20 or 30 years old.
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