Pire, d’ici 2050, nous, Français, Belges ou Suisses, serons peut-être amenés à migrer ou à demander l’asile en Norvège, en Finlande ou en Russie à cause du réchauffement climatique ou de l’explosion d’un ou de plusieurs réacteurs nucléaires… Alors, comment ne pas voir dans le réfugié africain d’aujourd’hui, un reflet de notre condition d’humain du

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In this sense, the ages of globalization both explain and are explained by the rising scale of global interactions. Each boost in global scale has given rise to new technologies that have expanded populations and production. Each boost of scale, in turn, has changed the nature of governance and geopolitics. We are now reckoning, however, with a phe

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Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di

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of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20. If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world’s tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has cal

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