{"id":29395,"date":"2019-12-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=29395"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:54:01","slug":"retrospectives-des-annees-2010-faut-il-voir-le-verre-a-moitie-plein-ou-a-moitie-vide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/policy\/world\/retrospectives-des-annees-2010-faut-il-voir-le-verre-a-moitie-plein-ou-a-moitie-vide\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on 2010: is the glass half-full or half-empty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>As the 2010 decade draws to a close, many of us are tempted to draw up a list of the major events of the past decade. This list, obviously non-exhaustive, will probably include some of the following: the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, the refugee crisis, the Paris attacks, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Russia's annexation of Crimea, the Ebola epidemic, the eurozone crisis, the success of populist movements in India, Brazil, the Philippines and the USA, Brexit, record fires in the Amazon rainforest, and strikes for the climate. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Pourquoi, parmi les centaines de milliers d\u2019informations assimil\u00e9es durant une d\u00e9cennie, d\u00e9cidons-nous de nous rappeler avant tout des plus dramatiques? Selon l\u2019auteur de <em>Factfulness<\/em>, le m\u00e9decin et conf\u00e9rencier su\u00e9dois Hans Rosling (1948-2017), il ne s\u2019agit pas d\u2019un choix, mais d\u2019un instinct: nos cerveaux sont conditionn\u00e9s \u00e0 se souvenir des informations dramatiques. Toute nouvelle v\u00e9hiculant une peur est automatiquement filtr\u00e9e par notre cerveau comme une information importante, car per\u00e7ue comme l\u2019expression d\u2019un danger imm\u00e9diat. Si vous relisez ma liste d\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nements marquants de la d\u00e9cennie, vous constaterez que je ne fais \u00e9videmment pas exception \u00e0 la r\u00e8gle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cependant, au lieu de se laisser guider par l\u2019instinct de la peur, de la g\u00e9n\u00e9ralisation, ou encore du <em>gap instinct<\/em>, Rosling nous propose de d\u00e9velopper un esprit critique pour \u00e9valuer toute information re\u00e7ue avec recul. Son message n\u2019est pas d\u2019ignorer nos instincts et de consid\u00e9rer avec froideur tous les maux frappant notre monde. Des atrocit\u00e9s sont commises tous les jours, et jamais nous ne devrions devenir sourds \u00e0 la souffrance d\u2019autrui. Le message de Rosling est tout autre. Pour \u00eatre capable de garder foi en notre humanit\u00e9, nous devons \u00eatre capables de faire le constat mental suivant: la situation est mauvaise, mais en am\u00e9lioration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-des-millions-d-avions-arrives-sans-encombre\">Des millions d&#8217;avions arriv\u00e9s sans encombre<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Prisonniers de notre instinct de la peur, nous sommes incapables de constater les progr\u00e8s silencieux que l\u2019humanit\u00e9 a accomplis durant les derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies. L\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 et \u00e0 l\u2019eau potable, la vaccination et l\u2019\u00e9ducation sont autant de facteurs en progression constante, sans pour autant \u00eatre m\u00e9diatis\u00e9s. Aucun journaliste n\u2019\u00e9crirait d\u2019article au sujet des millions d\u2019avions arriv\u00e9s sans encombre \u00e0 destination. Les accidents d\u2019avion sont quant \u00e0 eux tr\u00e8s m\u00e9diatis\u00e9s, parce que ces informations vendent mieux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ainsi, malgr\u00e9 les guerres en cours en Syrie, au Y\u00e9men ou encore en Ukraine, les incendies, tremblements de terre et inondations \u2013 autant de drames dont la gravit\u00e9 ne devrait jamais \u00eatre mise en doute \u2013 la part de la population touch\u00e9e par la guerre ou par des catastrophes naturelles n\u2019a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi basse au cours de l\u2019histoire humaine. Malgr\u00e9 les d\u00e9fis globaux tels que la persistance de la pauvret\u00e9 extr\u00eame dans certaines r\u00e9gions du monde, la rar\u00e9faction des ressources naturelles et la mont\u00e9e des in\u00e9galit\u00e9s, l\u2019esp\u00e9rance de vie humaine n\u2019a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi \u00e9lev\u00e9e. L\u2019\u00e9tat du monde est \u00e9videmment pr\u00e9occupant, mais des progr\u00e8s sont r\u00e9alis\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Une autre cause de pessimisme d\u00e9coule de l\u2019utilisation de concepts et de g\u00e9n\u00e9ralisations aujourd\u2019hui d\u00e9pass\u00e9es. L\u2019id\u00e9e de \u00abTiers Monde\u00bb est sans doute l\u2019une des plus tenaces d\u2019entre elles. Ce concept, cr\u00e9\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es cinquante et encore largement utilis\u00e9 en 2019, englobe la plupart des pays d\u2019Afrique, d\u2019Asie et d\u2019Am\u00e9rique du Sud. Ces nations seraient destin\u00e9es \u00e0 garder \u00e0 jamais un retard \u00e9conomique et social consid\u00e9rable par rapport aux pays industrialis\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or, le concept de \u00abTiers Monde\u00bb ne refl\u00e8te plus la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui. Prenons, pour illustrer cela, deux indicateurs de pauvret\u00e9: la mortalit\u00e9 infantile, qui refl\u00e8te la disponibilit\u00e9 et la qualit\u00e9 des syst\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9, et le nombre de b\u00e9b\u00e9s par femme, indicateur de niveau de d\u00e9veloppement \u2013 il est universellement observ\u00e9 que le taux de natalit\u00e9 d\u00e9cro\u00eet lorsqu\u2019un pays s\u2019industrialise. Comparons ces deux indicateurs, entre 1970 et 2018, faute de donn\u00e9es disponibles pour l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2019. Nous y avons en outre ajout\u00e9 une troisi\u00e8me dimension: la population par pays, indiqu\u00e9e par la taille des bulles de couleur, qui nous donne une meilleure id\u00e9e d\u2019o\u00f9 la majorit\u00e9 population se \u00absitue\u00bb sur le graphique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970.png 958w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970-585x313.png 585w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970-150x80.png 150w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1970-600x321.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: gapminder.org<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"527\" src=\"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018.png 972w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018-585x317.png 585w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2018-600x325.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: gapminder.org<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vers-la-fin-du-tiers-monde\">Vers la fin du \u00abTiers monde\u00bb?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>En 1970, on distingue clairement deux mondes. D\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9, un monde industrialis\u00e9, o\u00f9 les femmes ont en moyenne deux \u00e0 trois enfants dont le taux de mortalit\u00e9 est tr\u00e8s faible. La majorit\u00e9 de l\u2019humanit\u00e9 vit dans le \u00abTiers Monde\u00bb, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par un haut taux de natalit\u00e9 et une forte mortalit\u00e9 infantile. Le monde d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui est bien diff\u00e9rent. L\u2019immense majorit\u00e9 de l\u2019humanit\u00e9 a atteint un bas niveau de natalit\u00e9, et la mortalit\u00e9 infantile a significativement diminu\u00e9, tant et si bien que le \u00abTiers Monde\u00bb se confond avec le monde industrialis\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Une telle progression, sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans l\u2019histoire humaine, devrait \u00eatre plus souvent c\u00e9l\u00e9br\u00e9e. Je ne peux que conseiller aux lecteurs curieux ou sceptiques de se rendre sur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">gapminder.org<\/a> et \u00e0 comparer d\u2019autres indicateurs. Vous constaterez la largeur du foss\u00e9 qui s\u00e9pare notre perception du monde et sa r\u00e9alit\u00e9. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A l\u2019heure du num\u00e9rique o\u00f9 le partage d\u2019information est devenu instantan\u00e9, nous sommes en permanence accabl\u00e9s de nouvelles dramatiques. Si nous ne nous retenons que celles-ci, notre perception de la situation sera erron\u00e9e, sinon incompl\u00e8te. C\u2019est pourquoi, en ce moment de bilan de la d\u00e9cennie 2010, il est plus que jamais important de rester attentif aux progr\u00e8s silencieux accomplis par l\u2019humanit\u00e9. Des milliers d&#8217;avions arriv\u00e9s sans encombre \u00e0 destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Write to the author: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:Baptiste.michellod@gmail.com\"><em>Baptiste.michellod@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remaining attentive to human 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