Jean Jouzel

Y a-t-il un lien entre le plastique et les ouragans Sandy et Katrina, aux États-Unis, la fonte des glaciers dans l’Antarctique, les vagues de chaleur pendant l’été, l’érosion du littoral en Australie — et quantité d’autres catastrophes naturelles qui s’abattent sur nous avec une fréquence accrue ? Nous incriminons le changement climatique. Mais l’impact des déchets plastiques et de l’industrie du plastique sur le changement climatique est souvent méconnu ou, pire, pris à la légère.

Via de Bankbabbel houden we je op de hoogte over het reilen en zeilen in de bankenwereld. We prikken door de groene praatjes, brengen de dubieuze deals boven water en vieren de kleine én grote overwinningen.

Dans l'affaire Epstein, Bank of America règle 72,5 millions de dollars avec les victimes, niant tout manquement.

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared. The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion. All life depends on water but the report found many societies had long been using water faster than it could be replenished annually in rivers and soils, as well as over-exploiting or destroying long-term stores of water in aquifers and wetlands.

Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.

Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible damage pushes many basins beyond recovery

“Water crisis” has become the default label for almost any episode of water stress, from short-lived droughts to decades-long overuse of rivers and aquifers. Yet in many regions of the world, water problems no longer resemble a crisis in the conventional sense. They represent a post-crisis failure state in which human–water systems have exceeded their hydrological carrying capacities, and societies have spent beyond their sustainable hydrological budgets for so long that critical water assets are depleted, some ecosystem damages are irreversible on human time scales, and a return to “normal” is infeasible even with prohibitive economic, social, and environmental costs.

De Vlaamse regelgeving omtrent pesticiden is in strijd met het Europees recht. Dat heeft de Brusselse rechtbank van eerste aanleg maandag beslist. ‘Vlaanderen moet nu haar landbouwbeleid fundamenteel hertekenen.’

Robin Verachtert is beleidsmedewerker Water bij Natuurpunt. Hij schrijft deze opinie in naam van de Watercoalitie, een samenwerkingsverband van Bond Beter Leefmilieu, BOS+, Breekijzer, Coördinatie Zenne, Dokano, GoodPlanet, Join For Water, Limburgse Milieukoepel, Natuurpunt, Natuur.koepel, Valk, Velt, Waterland en West-Vlaamse Milieufederatie.

Le directeur général de Softbank, Masayoshi Son, a affirmé vendredi que la superintelligence artificielle pourrait remporter le prix Nobel de littérature et dépasser les humains au point d’en faire des "poissons rouges".