Abstract ID: 3.11410 | Accepted as Talk | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA

High school student should be considered as an anthropocenic sentinel category capable of providing us with information on the issue of global warming. They are under an institutional obligation to make a very rapid choice of educational and vocational direction. As a result, they are taking stock of the environmental, economic and social situation, while looking to the future. They are aware of climate mechanisms and the irreparable losses caused by global warming. Many of them expressed both their grief at the transformation of an area that is less and less habitable and their hope for a better future through education and professional advancement. A minority who are failing at school are in great distress, raising the question of what positive narratives can be developed apart from those linked to academic and professional success, which is most often envisaged outside mountain areas. We would like to draw on a study carried out in a rural boarding school in the Anti-Atlas region of Morocco. We carried out a quantitative questionnaire survey of 102 pupils to discuss the relationship between global warming and school careers. This survey was backed up by a film co-investigation in which 34 volunteers described their perceptions of environmental change, particularly drought’s impacts. The pupils remain deeply attached to their region and to farming activities, despite the disappearance of the latter as a result of consecutive years of drought. The pupils describe the collapse of their sensitive world and the depopulation of their territory (disappearance of plants, animals and humans). They explain how global warming and especially drought are affecting their village, their family and their daily lives. However, the collapse affects boys and girls differently. While all the girls see continuing their studies as a way of improving their future lives, despite the climatic conditions, the older boys who are having difficulty at school overwhelmingly project themselves outside of school, without envisaging a desirable future. These boys appear to be much more pessimistic, as they often experience global warming very directly as an immediate loss of income, as well as the impossibility of inheriting their family’s agricultural heritage.