Sublime

Pour l’écrivain et professeur de sciences environnementales David Orr, la « crise [planétaire] s’est produite au moment et à l’endroit où le lien entre la connaissance, les moyens de subsistance et le fait de vivre a été cassé, et la connaissance a été utilisée dans le seul but d’augmenter la productivité236 ». Il est grand temps de réparer ces lie

Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.

Condemning such terms as ‘Sites of Special Scientific Interest’, ‘no-catch zones’, ‘reference areas’ and ‘natural capital’ for a lack of vision when describing the remarkable vitality and richness of the planet we inhabit, he went on to write, ‘Had you set out to estrange people from the living world, you could scarcely have done better.’ The

I found my new department located in another abandoned temple – this time much older than Alfred Mond’s shrine to the Imperial Chemical Industries. The Old Admiralty had been purpose-built as the headquarters of the British Navy in 1703. Its courtyard walls were topped with leaping dolphins, the ceilings decorated with plaster anchors, and the inte

I outlined three enormous challenges for the Digital Age: rising inequality, massive environmental degradation, and the risks arising from major geopolitical change. These daunting challenges could overload our political institutions and provoke a devastating conflict. Such has been the pattern of the past. Surely the prime task of our age is to re