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Plus d’un an après l’annonce de la mise en pause du plan Écophyto II+, qui visait à "réduire les usages de produits phytopharmaceutiques de 50% d’ici 2025", et son remplacement par la controversée stratégie Écophyto 2030, la question des pesticides revient sur le devant de la scène parlementaire dans le cadre des débats autour de l’adoption de la proposition de loi "Lever les contraintes à l’exercice du métier d’agriculteur", dite loi "Duplomb" (du nom du sénateur Les Républicains Laurent Duplomb, qui l’a initiée). L’occasion de rappeler que les agriculteurs sont les premiers exposés aux produits phytosanitaires, ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence pour leur santé.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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.

In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory would mean an additional four billion tons of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere by 2030, a total surrender on the climate pledges the country had made under the Paris Agreement and the functional end of the global goals that agreement established among nearly all the world’s nations.

The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a continuing permanent war, research has found. A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product (GDP), the researchers found, a far higher estimate than that of previous analyses.

Un physicien et un graphiste ont collaboré pour produire cette infographie, qui représente sous forme de cubes la masse des différents composants de la biosphère et ceux de la “technosphère”, c’est-à-dire les matériaux créés par les êtres humains, en grande partie de notre vivant.

Outre-Atlantique, si chaque État a sa propre histoire, les modes de production d’électricité ont bien changé en vingt ans. Mais les énergies fossiles dominent encore.

Outre les dizaines de milliers de morts, la guerre israélienne a fait plus de 100 000 blessés parmi les habitants de Gaza, dont beaucoup d’enfants. “The New York Times” est allé à la rencontre de ceux qui ont eu la chance d’être évacués et opérés au Qatar.

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).

Women and gender-diverse people bear the brunt of climate change’s negative affects. If Australia wants to be taken seriously on climate action, this needs addressing.