Abstract
How can we reconcile the "beautiful history" of the universe with the "less beautiful history" of humanity?
Scientific knowledge teaches us that we owe our existence to countless galactic, stellar and planetary phenomena throughout the billions of years of the cosmos. But we also realize that our future is threatened by the activities of our own species.
Our intelligence, which in the distant past enabled us to survive in hostile conditions, is now at the root of the technologies responsible for the greenhouse effect, the erosion of biodiversity and so on.
It remains for us to show that intelligence is not a "poisoned gift", that it can also enable us to emerge from the contemporary ecological crisis. This is the hot topic of today's symposium.
