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Dear Fabien, you don't know me yet, I am your grandson

I have been writing to you since the year 2083

I am sending you this message so that your time reacts

The planet is in bad shape here, you absolutely have to believe me

Jakarta, Lagos, New York have disappeared under the sea

But also Venice, London, and a third of the Netherlands

Timbuktu and northern Mali buried under the desert

And the Niger River no longer has a single drop of water in its arms

Coastal towns battling rising sea levels

We can build dikes, dams, and walls

They don't weigh very much and quickly break into pieces

When cyclones and hurricanes come to finish the job

In several countries in Africa and Southeast Asia

But also in Athens, Cairo, and a few other elected officials

It's often sixty degrees, every summer is a test

Where the rich live under air conditioning and the poor no longer live

Climate change has been so violent

That ecosystems have not had time to adapt

A million species in addition to the famous polar bears

Gone forever, they couldn't resist

Last year, New Delhi was completely evacuated

Asphyxiated as she was under a cloud of pollution

In Beijing and Shanghai, a new law has just been passed

Without an oxygen mask, it is forbidden to leave your house

The soils are so dry that there are no more vines in France

And in several southern countries, agriculture is impossible

When farmers no longer have water, we are beyond emergency

Famine and poverty have become irreversible

Drought and heat have caused millions of deaths

And millions of refugees fleeing their country

Borders are combat zones in northern states

It's war in Europe, America and Asia

Dear grandson, I read your letter with fear

I think I have understood the extent of the crisis

But to tell you the truth, for us in 2023

Everything you're telling me isn't really a surprise

It's been several years, even several decades

That scientists try in vain to alert us

That it's not yet too late, that the fight is not over

But right now we're all at stake for the future of humanity

I still don't understand what the great people of this world do

Every climate conference is a terrible failure

No G20 results in profound measures

They go there in a private jet and sweat the IPCC reports

When will they declare a global climate emergency?

And constrain countries on their CO2 emissions?

When will they make all deforestation illegal?

Invest massively to consume less, consume better

Changes in behavior will necessarily require laws

Politicians will have to come out of their inaction

We won't have to wait until we're in 2083

From today, half measures are no longer an option

My dear grandson, can you ask all your friends

To write to their ancestors, to follow your initiative?

The fight is not lost, the Earth is not dead yet

But victory for the climate can only be collective

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aïeux — ancestors

Aïeux translates to "ancestors" or "forefathers". It's a somewhat formal and less common word in everyday French, making it stand out.

In the context of this song, which is a powerful message about climate change from the future, the word is particularly poignant. The artist, Grand Corps Malade, uses it when the grandson asks his grandfather to encourage his friends to write to their "aïeux" (ancestors) – meaning the current generation – to take action. This highlights the intergenerational responsibility and the urgent need for the present to act for the future.

"2083" is a letter from the future. Grand Corps Malade writes as his own great-grandson, Fabien, addressing him from the year 2083 to describe a world reshaped by climate change: cities swallowed by rising seas, dried-up rivers, deserts spreading through Mali, and coastlines losing their fight against the water.

The letter lists the damage in plain terms: droughts, refugees, wars over borders, and a growing gap between the rich, who shelter from the heat, and the poor, who cannot. It also calls out the people responsible, who fly private and shrug off scientific warnings.

The song's plea is simple: don't wait until 2083 to act. Fabien's great-grandson asks him, today, to write to leaders and push for change, insisting the fight for the climate is still winnable, but only together.

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