3. A plea for better adaptation

3.1 Fighting the dogma of the unedited

Unfortunately, the misunderstanding and "discovery" of risk are all too often the result of the marginal fate reserved for the historical discipline, given all the horizons it can open up in terms of operational adaptation [P 4 239] . Firstly, it can help combat the "dogma of the unprecedented", which tends to explain recent disasters by climate change alone. A perverse approach if ever there was one, since it implies a certain causality between the two and, by the same token, a form of instrumentalization and denial that obscures decades of senseless development at the root of the vulnerability of territories and their inhabitants. Indeed, the paradox is that...