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These are all critically important issues. But here’s the rub: Even if the Democratic administration were resoundingly successful on all fronts, its initiatives would still be utterly insufficient to resolve the existential threat of climate breakdown and the devastation of our planet’s life-support systems. That’s because the multiple problems confronting us right now are symptoms of an even more profound problem: The underlying structure of a global economic and political system that is driving civilization toward a precipice.
The good news is that there are solutions, many of which involve bringing nature (and food) resources back into the city: more parks, more trees, natural systems (“green infrastructure”) to reduce stormwater pollution, “green” roofs, and even urban farms, such as concentrated urban farming
TRIBUNE. Un éco-urbanisme avec la transition écologique pour objectif est aussi indispensable que l’adaptation de la ville aux menaces climatiques futures souligne, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’architecte et urbaniste Albert Levy.
Quelle place l'urbanisme accorde-t-il à la pensée écologique ? Décrivant les usages du végétal en ville depuis le XIXe siècle, Charles-François Mathis interroge l'évolution historique des partis pris de l'aménagement et les fondements de l'avènement d'un « urbanisme écologique ». Où que j'aille aujourd'hui encore, si l'occasion s'en présente, si j'ai dans une ville inconnue une heure à perdre, une dérive complaisante m'entraîne au long des rues, vers ces placides enclaves chlorophylliennes cernées de nos jours par
The fight to have ecocide recognised as a crime against humanity in both international and national law has spanned multiple decades. During this time, countless crimes against ecosystems and their inhabitants – human and animal – have been carried out with devastating effects. Now ecocide has finally made it onto the political agenda in Europe and around the world. But the battle to ensure that legislation means perpetrators will be brought to justice is far from won.
No one would deny that it is possible to make capitalism greener. Yet the proposal of eco-productivism remains short-sighted.
Professor of human ecology Andreas Malm takes his reflections on fossil capitalism a step further to make a direct connection between the Green surge recently witnessed in some European countries and the electoral victories of far-right populist forces. For him, Greens must use this opportunity to push their fight for climate justice side-by-side with movements on the street.
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned in a new report that “Europe will not achieve its sustainability vision of ‘living well within the limits of the planet’ by continuing to promote economic growth and seeking to manage the environmental and social impacts.”
From the threat of air pollution to the climate crisis, sustainability is now visible in the media and the campaign ahead of Poland’s parliamentary elections on October 13. But will this shift produce a real change in direction for the good of both people and planet?
The extractive nature of mass tourism is made possible by tourist behaviour, missing regulations and lacking alternatives. There has been very little work done to make tourism more responsible, sustainable and enriching for local communities. While there is a growing number of emerging NGOs, cooperatives and social enterprises to channel tourism revenues into socially meaningful initiatives, they are often isolated and do not constitute a coherent tissue of services that could help tourists spend their budget in a thoroughly responsible way, with the most positive footprint possible. Our selection of interviews and articles aims at mapping and bringing together these initiatives, understanding their functioning, strengthening the ecosystem that feeds them and helping municipalities in adopting their tourism strategies to accommodate more responsible ways of traveling.
Le site ImagoTV mis en ligne en décembre 2018 regroupe des podcasts, documentaires et vidéos YouTube écolos et engagés. Une vidéothèque gratuite et participative.
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Before describing possible features of a future ecosocialism, it is worthwhile to consider why such a system is even needed. Why can’t the problems that ecosocialism would solve also be remedied within the current global capitalist system? Part I of this essay addresses that question by summarizing recent scientific reports on the state of the climate and extent of the ecological crisis; reviewing available methods and technologies that could be used to address the climate and ecological crises; and briefly describing capitalism’s structural inability to provide solutions at the scale of the crises. Part II then takes up the subject of the title, ecosocialism, along with strategies to move in that direction.
Peut-on atteindre dans un même élan l’exemplarité sociale et la performance économique ? La justice de l’une et l’efficacité de l’autre. Le débarquement du PDG de Danone, Emmanuel Faber, nous plonge une fois de plus dans cette confusion des sentiments au cœur de la réflexion sur l’éthique du capitalisme. Les défenseurs du patron licencié mettront en avant le sacrifice d’un visionnaire, les autres la sanction d’un piètre gestionnaire.
School is a shared experience. Everybody goes to school and one way or another the experience shapes us. Yet despite education’s importance, the question of what we learn and how is often left in the background, while the deeper question of what is school actually for is overlooked entirely. In an interconnected world where the implications of climate breakdown and new digital technologies are reshaping how we live our lives, shouldn’t they reshape how we prepare for them too? This question is the point of departure for Dessine-moi un avenir (Draw me a Future), published in French by Actes Sud. We spoke to Edouard Gaudot, co-author alongside Rodrigo Arenas and Nathalie Laville, about the key challenges for education systems today and why schools should be at the centre of green politics.
It’s the first time a major city has attempted to put doughnut theory into action on a local level
Selon l’Indice planète vivante, publié en septembre dernier par le Fonds mondial pour la nature (WWF), la chute de la biodiversité s’est accélérée dans le monde, et 68 % des populations d’animaux sauvages auraient disparu entre 1970 et 2016. Des chiffres qui renforcent la conviction qu’un effondrement global, uniforme et synchrone nous attendrait inévitablement. Cet imaginaire effondriste, ou collapsologie, a progressivement colonisé la pensée écologiste au point d’en devenir le seul horizon, et de la priver de tout sens politique. Rediffusion du 14 septembre 2020.
The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet, the Mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland, the Mayor of Saint-Etienne Gaël Perdriau… Forty mayors and inter-municipal presidents plead in the Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD – a French weekly newspaper, published on Sundays, follows political and international news, founded in 1948) for support …
This edition maps the different worlds of green politics today, exploring the movements and ideas driving its development. Zooming out, the edition asks what wider changes in politics and society mean for political ecology as it faces interlocking environmental and social crises in the 21st century.
As much as a way of understanding the world as a movement to change it, political ecology is on the rise. A reckoning with our society’s position in a wider ecological system is taking place. Faced with irrevocable damage that makes life everywhere more insecure, from Italy to Finland, people are organising for a change of course at the ballot box and through insurgent street protests. From concepts such as ecofeminism and the Green New Deal to questions of narrative and institutional change, this edition maps the forces, strategies, and ideas that will power political ecology, across Europe as around the world. The 2020s can be a decade of change for the better, or the worse.
The rise of the Greens is the big story of German politics over the last few years. Once a smaller force, the party nows leads the progressive field and is aspiring to head up the next federal government, with elections scheduled for 2021.
Transformer le tribunal en tribune, tel était l’objectif, le 11 septembre dernier à Paris, des activistes qui ont décroché des portraits présidentiels pour dénoncer l’inaction climatique et sociale du gouvernement. Ces procès sont particulièrement importants pour démontrer le schisme entre l’écologie et le logiciel néolibéral d’Emmanuel Macron. 57% des Français ne croient plus dans l’image du président champion de la Terre, et les campagnes du mouvement climat n’y sont pas pour rien. C’est aussi l’occasion de questionner plus fondamentalement la capacité de nos institutions à s’adapter aux enjeux contemporains, notamment l’institution judiciaire, et de comment le mouvement climat peut y contribuer efficacement.
Visionnaire, le philosophe André Gorz avait prévu, dans ce texte paru en 1974, la récupération de l'écologie par l'industrie, les groupes financiers — en un mot, le capitalisme.
Nicolas Hulot a avoué ne pas comprendre l’inaction générale face à la crise écologique. Reporterre a cherché les explications. Et trouvé dans les sciences cognitives, la philosophie et l’écologie des éléments pour expliquer ce phénomène. Ce qui dessine, en creux, les pistes vers la transition.
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