JACQUES ATTALI : FAIRE FACE À L’AVENIR DE NOS ENFANTS
Hier, Jacques Attali conseillait les plus grands dirigeants politiques... Aujourd’hui, il écrit sur le monde de nos enfants !
Pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, il est celui qui murmure à l’oreille des puissants. Conseiller spécial de François Mitterrand et auteur de plus de 80 livres (vendus à 9 millions d’exemplaires et traduits en 22 langues), Jacques Attali est également le fondateur d’institutions internationales telles qu’Action contre la faim et Positive Planet.
Jacques Attali, Ardent défenseur de l’économie positive, c’est avec le projet de Positive Planet qu’il invite les économies locales à lutter contre l’exclusion en favorisant la création d’entreprises positives dans les quartiers en France, en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient.
Pour ceux qui ne le connaissent pas, il est celui qui murmure à l’oreille des puissants. Conseiller spécial de François Mitterrand et auteur de plus de 80 livres (vendus à 9 millions d’exemplaires et traduits en 22 langues), Jacques Attali est également le fondateur d’institutions internationales telles qu’Action contre la faim et Positive Planet.
Jacques Attali, Ardent défenseur de l’économie positive, c’est avec le projet de Positive Planet qu’il invite les économies locales à lutter contre l’exclusion en favorisant la création d’entreprises positives dans les quartiers en France, en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient.
Transcript
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.
02:19 (upbeat music)
02:21 (upbeat music)
02:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]