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Fuyant l’acharnement de Donald Trump contre la liberté de la recherche, trois enseignants américains spécialistes du fascisme, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder et Jason Stanley, se sont expatriés à Toronto, alarmés par la montée de «l’autoritarisme» aux États-Unis.

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.

Dans un entretien au « Monde », le professeur de philosophie américain explique pourquoi il a décidé de s’exiler au Canada. Il justifie ce départ par les assauts de l’administration Trump contre les campus américains, même si son université a été jusqu’ici relativement épargnée. Jason Stanley est professeur de philosophie, spécialisé dans les pratiques et le langage des régimes autoritaires. Il a décidé de quitter Yale et de rejoindre la Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy de l’université de Toronto, au Canada.

Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while increasing their gross domestic product (absolute decoupling). Politicians and media have hailed this as green growth. In this empirical study, we aimed to assess whether these achievements are consistent with the Paris Agreement, and whether Paris-compliant decoupling is within reach.

Background Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while increasing their gross domestic product (absolute decoupling). Politicians and media have hailed this as green growth. In this empirical study, we aimed to assess whether these achievements are consistent with the Paris Agreement, and whether Paris-compliant decoupling is within reach.

Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown. In this study, projected changes in flash drought frequency and cropland risk from flash drought are quantified using global climate model simulations. We find that flash drought occurrence is expected to increase globally among all scenarios, with the sharpest increases seen in scenarios with higher radiative forcing and greater fossil fuel usage. Flash drought risk over cropland is expected to increase globally, with the largest increases projected across North America (change in annual risk from 32% in 2015 to 49% in 2100) and Europe (32% to 53%) in the most extreme emissions scenario. Following low-end and medium scenarios compared to high-end scenarios indicates a notable reduction in annual flash drought risk over cropland. Flash droughts are projected to become more frequent unde

Op 15 mei organiseert Denktank Oikos in samenwerking met Kunstencentrum 404 in Gent een debat met de belangrijkste 'degrowth'-denker van het moment, Jason Hickel. Oikos-hoofdredacteur Dirk Holemans daarover: “'Ontgroei' (degrowth) is een filosofisch concept: het toont dat we een heel ander maatschappelijk verhaal nodig hebben dan het blinde groeidenken.”

After all, Western economies – and their economic growth – depend utterly on labour and resources from the South...

Centraal in dit boek staat de vaststelling dat het kapitalisme niet in staat is de klimaatverandering en ecologische ineenstorting op te lossen. Het schetst een duidelijke weg naar een postkapitalistische economie.

Hans Demeyer las 'Minder is Meer' van Jason Hickel en vergeleek dit boek met 'Waarom ons klimaat niet naar de knoppen gaat (als we het hoofd koel houden)' van Maarten Boudry.

Many are still missing after this month’s floods. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and it can be devastating

Op 24 oktober 2021 sprak Jason Hickel, auteur van Minder is Meer (EPO, 2021), op Ecopolis in Brussel. Zijn toespraak publiceren we hier naar aanleiding van het 50-jarig jubileum van het rapport De Grenzen aan de Groei van de Club van Rome. “Wat we de komende tien jaar doen zal de toekomst van de mensheid bepalen”.

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Alors qu’on n’a jamais autant parlé des impacts de l’homme sur le climat et la biosphère, à l’approche de la COP21, un historien propose une thèse à contre-courant : la nature a été non pas exploitée mais produite par le capitalisme, qui s’en est servi pour créer de la richesse. Pour Jason W. Moore, il est plus moderne et beaucoup plus fécond de penser une « écologie-monde ». Entretien rélisé par Joseph Confavreux et Jade Lindgaard

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New study shows low levels of future global warming are far less likely than previously thought. Very high warming is also slightly less likely.

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a lot of corporations, including oil companies, that objected to the Kyoto accords in 1997. But most of them lobbied against the treaty on economic and fairness grounds that would cost the economy of the United States too much for the benefits promised, and also that it wasn’t fair that developing societies would be left out of the bargain. But Exxon did something that I think was fairly radical, which was that they chose to go after the science.