Face à des constats environnementaux alarmants, de nombreux militants et chercheurs appellent à une transformation radicale de notre système économique pour créer un monde non seulement habitable, mais aussi plus juste. Notre sélection d’articles met en évidence la nécessité de remettre en question la capacité du capitalisme à s’adapter aux défis climatiques et environnementaux.
Our rising power finally reached the point where we could destroy ourselves – the first point at which the risks to humanity from within exceeded the risks from the natural world. These extreme risks – high-impact threats with global reach – define our time. They range from global tragedies such as Covid-19, to existential risks which could lead to human extinction. By our estimates – weighing the different probabilities of events ranging from asteroid impact to nuclear war – the likelihood of the world experiencing an existential catastrophe over the next 100 years is one in six. Russian roulette.