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HONG KONG — Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has done battle with some of the world's worst threats, including the SARS virus he helped isolate and identify. And he has a warning.

f global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century. The oil and gas industry, which includes many of the most profitable and powerful businesses in the world, is directly and indirectly responsible for more than 40% of carbon emissions—impacting the lives of billions of people, many living in the world's most remote and low-resourced communities. A new study proposes aggressive energy policies that would enable immediate and substantive decreases to carbon emissions and recommends a heightened level of government, corporate and citizen action to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy, aiming to minimize the number of projected human deaths.

The politics of this new, extreme individualism will make collective responses to social crises impossible, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Researchers found that exceeding the 2C increase has a 50% chance of happening by mid-century

En matière de climat, l’ennemi numéro un, ce sont les énergies fossiles (charbon, pétrole et gaz) - c’est-à-dire, parmi les grandes entreprises françaises, TotalEnergies. Mais beaucoup d’autres groupes ont des liens étroits et des intérêts partagés avec le géant pétrolier et le secteur des énergies fossiles en général. Ce qui explique leur opposition à un action climatique décisive.

What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.

La 5G dont nous disposons actuellement n'est qu'une partie de ce que proposera à terme cette nouvelle technologie. Les ondes millimétriques (26 GHz) ouvriront de nouvelles perspectives. La 6G ira encore plus loin avec l'usage de « surfaces intelligentes reconfigurables » et un « meilleur suivi de l’utilisateur mobile ».

In 2005, I was the lead counsel on behalf of the US in one of the biggest corporate accountability legal actions ever filed. That trial proved that the tobacco industry knew it was selling and marketing a harmful product, that it had funded denial of public health science, and had used deceptive advertising and PR to protect assets instead of protecting consumers.

If our next federal government wants to save the reef, it must tackle the main reason it is in trouble by phasing out fossil fuel use and exports as quickly as possible. Otherwise it’s like putting bandaids on an arterial wound.

There is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).