This book can be criticized Morin thousand points: the observation can be considered pessimistic, he may be accused of embracing too wide, it may be considered utopian proposed reform paths. But how, when the destiny of humanity is at stake, when all diagnoses (demographic, environmental, geopolitical, etc.) incline to a frightening pessimism, when all the problems and all the challenges (political, scientific, technological, ethical, religious, ecological, educational, etc.) are clearly intertwined? How to do? By plotting all costs of "tracks". By doing what Morin in a courageous book, both essential and insufficient, simple beginnings of a necessary reflection book that addresses neither the experts nor the specialists but to all human thought and responsible.