Demain
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Concrete solutions have been offered in recent years to the problems that afflict agriculture, energy, economy education and politics. This is the case of permaculture, practiced by Charles and Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, and agroecology, explained here by journalist Marie-Monique Robine, and Elango Rangaswamy’s fight against the caste system in India. These are all virtuous models that fuel hope and optimism for tomorrow. The film won the César Award for best documentary in 2016.
Maybe there’s no such thing as a perfect school or a perfect democracy or a perfect economic model, but what emerged in our journey is a new vision of the world in which power and authority are not the privilege of a few, but where everything is connected and interdependent, as in nature.
Changing the agricultural model means changing the energy model; changing the energy model necessarily means rethinking land management; reorganizing the land presupposes a revision of our economic models; changing the economy means changing human beings, hence the education system has to be totally transformed. Lastly, for all these changes to take place our democratic systems have to evolve.
Ours is a more complex world in which our true strength is diversity, in which every person and every community are autonomous, hence freer, and have more power, hence more responsibility. A cell, which has to be healthy for the rest of the organism to work, thus has to be able to count upon all the other cells too.
At the end of our journey, we discover that a new social project is already starting to emerge: a tangible and sustainable project founded on new values and extraordinary creativity. It is up to us to decide whether to take part in this project. Saving our children and joining this (r)evolution is a way for us to give of our best and create a new humanity. The people we met are writing a new history. They tell us that it’s not too late, but also that we have to get a move on. Now!