Transition énergétique ?

In Belem, Brazil’s leader, President Lula da Silva, opened the talks by denouncing obstructionists who “reject scientific evidence and attack institutions.” “They manipulate algorithms, sow hatred and spread fear,” he said, describing a surge in disinformation and propaganda aimed at blocking action to slow climate change. The summit, for the first time, put the issue on the agenda. A coalition of countries and international agencies issued a separate “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change,” calling on governments to address climate disinformation, promote transparency and protect journalists, scientists and environmentalists.

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

.. the real risk of geoengineering is not some Hollywood-style catastrophe, but complacency. A cheap way to delay the effects of warming risks undermining the need to rapidly reduce emissions, and going down that path would risk locking our children into a dependency where even stopping the process becomes too expensive to contemplate...

Les pesticides de synthèse provoquent des drames humains. Ils sont un danger pour la santé. Leur interdiction est devenue un enjeu majeur pour notre société.

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Plus d’un an après l’annonce de la mise en pause du plan Écophyto II+, qui visait à "réduire les usages de produits phytopharmaceutiques de 50% d’ici 2025", et son remplacement par la controversée stratégie Écophyto 2030, la question des pesticides revient sur le devant de la scène parlementaire dans le cadre des débats autour de l’adoption de la proposition de loi "Lever les contraintes à l’exercice du métier d’agriculteur", dite loi "Duplomb" (du nom du sénateur Les Républicains Laurent Duplomb, qui l’a initiée). L’occasion de rappeler que les agriculteurs sont les premiers exposés aux produits phytosanitaires, ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence pour leur santé.

Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities. In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.

In the run-up to the November election, conventional analysis suggested that a Trump victory would mean an additional four billion tons of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere by 2030, a total surrender on the climate pledges the country had made under the Paris Agreement and the functional end of the global goals that agreement established among nearly all the world’s nations.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Un physicien et un graphiste ont collaboré pour produire cette infographie, qui représente sous forme de cubes la masse des différents composants de la biosphère et ceux de la “technosphère”, c’est-à-dire les matériaux créés par les êtres humains, en grande partie de notre vivant.