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Fuyant l’acharnement de Donald Trump contre la liberté de la recherche, trois enseignants américains spécialistes du fascisme, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder et Jason Stanley, se sont expatriés à Toronto, alarmés par la montée de «l’autoritarisme» aux États-Unis.

The Earth had its second-warmest April in NOAA's 176-year period of record. The 10 warmest Aprils on record have occurred since 2010.

Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities. In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.

Global risk management for human prosperity

The risk of Planetary Insolvency looms unless we act decisively. Without immediate policy action to change course, catastrophic or extreme impacts are eminently plausible, which could threaten future prosperity.

We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. For many years, scientists, including a group of more than 15,000, have sounded the alarm about the impending dangers of climate change driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem change (Ripple et al. 2020).

In Munich I heard both Ukrainians and Alexei Navalny’s widow tell us why Putin must be defeated, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

Dans une tribune au « Monde », trois scientifiques, Denis Couvet, Wolfgang Cramer et Timothy D. Searchinger, alertent sur la politique climatique de l’Union européenne, qui entend consacrer un cinquième des terres cultivées à la bioénergie, et à multiplier les importations de bois.

Why do we always make the same mistake? Oh, that’s only trouble in the Balkans, we say – and then an assassination in Sarajevo sparks the first world war. Oh, Adolf Hitler’s threat to Czechoslovakia is “a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing” – and then we find ourselves in the second world war. Oh, Joseph Stalin’s takeover of distant Poland after 1945 is none of our business – and soon enough we have the cold war. Now we have done it again, not waking up until it is too late to the full implications of Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea in 2014. And so, on Thursday 24 February 2022, we stand here again, clothed in nothing but the shreds of our lost illusions.

New study shows low levels of future global warming are far less likely than previously thought. Very high warming is also slightly less likely.

La menace croissante de changements climatiques abrupts et irréversibles doit contraindre à une action politique et économique sur les émissions.

Peut-on parler d’écologie sans évoquer la nature ? Peut-on être écolo sans craindre la catastrophe globale ou sans se contenter de petites initiatives déculpabilisantes ? Le philosophe Timothy Morton propose de penser grand avec La pensée écologique.