Focus Revenu universel

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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 ».

2022

Energy return on investment (EROI) is a biophysical and ecological economics concept that is useful to think about how organisms, ecosystems and societies must obtain enough surplus energy returned from energy gathering activities to live, reproduce, and thrive. EROI can help us overcome the false dualism between nature and society. EROI is a useful metric for economics because it is based on immutable physical laws rather than sometimes arbitrary human preferences. It is essential for assessing useful power, energy trade-offs, efficiencies (and inefficiencies), resource depletion trends, resource quality, and surplus potentials of different fuels and technologies that power, or might power, our socio-economic systems. Apparent inconsistencies in the literature can generally be reduced or eliminated by paying careful attention and explicitly stating boundaries and definitions. We argue that proper use of EROI is critical to understand the interconnections among the environment, energy, and socio-economic deve