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On les nomme « salaire minimum », « revenu universel », « allocation universelle », « socle citoyen », « revenu d’existence », … . Ces propositions ont pour objectif d’assurer un minimum vital décent. Comment les financer ? Quid de la relation au travail ? Quelle efficacité ? Pour quelle société ? Retrouvez ci-dessous, la liste actualisée « Focus Revenu universel ».

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2009

In 1973, Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist cross-trained in philosophy, sociology, and psychiatry, invoked consciousness of self and the inevitability of death as the primary sources of human anxiety and repression. He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety-buffering cultural world views or “immortality projects” that serve as the basis for self-esteem and meaning. Although he focused mainly on social and political outcomes like war, torture, and genocide, he was increasingly aware that materialism, denial of nature, and immortality-striving efforts to control, rather than sanctify, the natural world were problems whose severity was increasing. In this paper I review Becker’s ideas and suggest ways in which they illuminate human response to global climate change. Because immortality projects range from belief in technology and materialism to reverence for nature or belief in a celestial god, they act bo