Résilience alimentaire

Des modèles économiques défaillants pourraient faire s’effondrer l’économie mondiale à cause de la crise climatique, préviennent des experts. Les États et les institutions financières utilisent des modèles qui ignorent les chocs liés aux événements météorologiques extrêmes et aux points de bascule climatiques.

Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

I know it’s almost impossible to turn your eyes away from the Trump show, but that’s the point. His antics, ever-grosser and more preposterous, are designed to keep him in our minds, to crowd out other issues. His insatiable craving for attention is a global-threat multiplier. You can’t help wondering whether there’s anything he wouldn’t do to dominate the headlines.

La production alimentaire et les combustibles fossiles causent 5 milliards de dollars de dégâts environnementaux par heure Un rapport du PNUE affirme que mettre fin à ces dommages est essentiel à la transformation mondiale nécessaire « avant que l’effondrement ne devienne inévitable ».

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

Dario Amodei questions if human systems are ready to handle the ‘almost unimaginable power’ that is ‘potentially imminent’

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

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.

Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

L’effondrement de la biodiversité menace la sécurité du Royaume-Uni, avertissent les chefs du renseignement […] La destruction des écosystèmes va accroître les pénuries alimentaires, le désordre et les migrations de masse, des effets déjà visibles.

Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

As climate and geopolitics shocks bite, countries are rebuilding food buffers. The UK clings to neoliberal ideas while households pay the price

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI

Nous vivons une époque de polycrises. Si vous vous sentez coincé·e, vous n’êtes pas seul·e. Je n’avais pas pleinement compris à quel point l’idée d’un avenir meilleur me soutenait – aujourd’hui, comme beaucoup d’autres, j’ai du mal à être productive

We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone. I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive

Bronwen Maddox says Trump’s rejection of international law leaves UK and Europe facing huge dilemma

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas