Intempéries

Collapse has historically benefited the 99%. […] That’s the amazing conclusion of Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse.  Luke is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and has spent the past five years studying the collapse of civilisations throughout history. He joins me to explain his research, detailing the difference between complex, collective civilisations and what he calls “Goliaths”, massive centralising forces by which a small group of individuals extract wealth from the rest through domination and the threat of violence. Today, he says, we live in a global Goliath.

Le Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC) dresse depuis 1988 un état des lieux de la connaissance scientifique sur le changement climatique. Des faits régulièrement mis en cause par Donald Trump. L’élection de Donald Trump à la tête des États-Unis aura-t-elle un impact sur les rapports du Groupes d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat ? Photo AFP

Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them.

Chaleur record, émissions record, consommation record de combustibles fossiles. Un mois après la Cop28, le monde est plus éloigné que jamais de ses objectifs collectifs en matière de climat. Selon des recherches récentes, la « crise comportementale » de l’homme, terme inventé par une équipe interdisciplinaire de scientifiques, est à l’origine de tous ces problèmes.

New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.