La collapsologie est un courant de pensée transdisciplinaire apparu dans les années 2010 qui envisage les risques d’un effondrement de la civilisation industrielle et ses conséquences.
En France, l’étude d’un possible effondrement de la civilisation « thermo-industrielle » est initiée par l’Institut Momentum co-fondé par Yves Cochet et Agnès Sinaï. Ces derniers définissent l’effondrement comme « le processus irréversible à l’issue duquel les besoins de base (eau, alimentation, logement, habillement, énergie, etc.) ne sont plus fournis (à un coût raisonnable) à une majorité de la population par des services encadrés par la loi».
The world’s leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.
Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency.
Tens of thousands of African elephants are under threat from plans for a massive new oilfield in one of the continent’s last great wildernesses, experts have warned.