Justice & Paix

News and views on the coming collapse

This Contemplation is the result of my beginning to put together a different one that’s focussing upon an academic article I’ve been reading (Collapse, Environment, and Society) but that got me thinking about the academic ‘debate’ regarding what ‘societal collapse’ is, how it may–or may not–unfold for our current experiment in large, complex societies, and how things are perceived in the moment by those experiencing societal change. The ‘debate’ (centred more-or-less on the question: Do societies actually ‘collapse’ or are they ‘merely’ shifting/transforming/adapting to changing conditions?) is rather ‘academic’ in that in the grand scheme of things it’s intellectually interesting but doesn’t have much to do with the on-the-ground, real-life experiences and concerns of most humans in a society–especially if they are experiencing some of the more ‘problematic’ consequences of collapse/transformation.

Olivier Hamant, chercheur en biologie et en biophysique, est invité chez Thinkerview. Cela donne l'interview la plus inspirante de la chaîne selon moi. Il y présente le concept de robustesse, l'outil qui permet de faire face à un monde fluctuant. Il répond toujours avec justesse et beaucoup d'humilité, quel plaisir d'avoir un intervenant de ce niveau. Je vous invite vraiment à regarder l'interview en entier, c'est une masterclass.

Face à des incidents suspects en Ukraine et à des informations relayées par le Robert Lansing Institute, l'Europe se prépare à une possible vague d'attentats-suicides orchestrée par la Russie

Yuval Noah Harari, renowned historian and author of “Nexus,” explores the indelible impact of AI on human society. We discuss his iconoclastic views on information networks, the inextricable link between technology and political systems, and actionable ways to navigate our rapidly changing world.

The network of Atlantic ocean currents keeping the Earth's climate stable are far closer to collapse than first estimated, scientists warn.

Olivier Hamant : chercheur en biologie et biophysique.

Arctic Sea ice reaches it's minimum extent each year around the middle of September. This year is one of the lowest in recorded history. Ocean temperatures have been so 'off the charts' in 2023 and 2024 that scientists fear those waters have reached their capacity to mop up after us humans and are now starting to release that energy. On our current trajectory, by 2100, our planet will reach a temperature not seen for 3 MILLION years!. So...what's the plan???

Rarement un homme comme Charles Gave aura été capable d'enchainer autant de mensonges en 30mn comme il l'a fait sur Thinkerview.

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.

Le think tank de Jean-Marc Jancovici, publie ce jeudi 28 mars deux rapports invitant à prendre en compte l’objectif de réduction des émissions de carbone dans les choix technologiques et l’avènement des nouveaux usages.

Serge Zaka, ingénieur agronome, docteur en agroclimatologie.

With the help of the contingency concept, the article explores the reasons behind these surprises by introducing a new category of threats that complements the ones in the existing literature on surprise. It adds the concept of ‘known—corporally unknown’ threats to the list of known-unknowns, unknown-unknowns as a way to emsphasize the difference between abstract knowledge of ‘facts and figures’ (of e.g., global warming) and the acquiring of knowledge through personal, bodily experience (tangere) (of flooding and draughts). T

Resilience here, then, is not the naïve faith in riding the storm and putting the world back together more or less as it was, issue by issue, but recognising the necessity to fundamentally reorganise and reorient human society in ways that can allow human flourishing and ecological sustainability in symbiotic and mutually supportive relations of reciprocity and regeneration - and in a multiplicity of ways.

An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests.

Le 26 février 2023, Aurore STÉPHANT, représentant l’association SystExt, a été interviewée dans l’émission Thinkerview. L’interview intitulée "Effondrement : notre civilisation au bord du gouffre ?" d’une durée de 03h02min, a été diffusée en direct sur YouTube. L'entretien porte sur cinq thématiques relatives à l’industrie minière et aux filières minérales.

Pierre Larrouturou, député européen.

The world is at risk of descending into a climate “doom loop”, a thinktank report has warned. It said simply coping with the escalating impacts of the climate crisis could draw resources and focus away from the efforts to slash carbon emissions, making the situation even worse.

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