“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
- Carl Sagan
Important article from Dani Rodrik about what he calls 'productivism'. Robert Hockett @rch371 may be the most important exponent of what Rodrik describes, https://t.co/uMiJz1lgz6
I started striking from school on August 20th 2018 ahead of the Swedish general election. It has now been 4 years since then, and a new election is on its way. We are still here, but the climate crisis is still absent from the debate. 1/4
BREAKING: @Cambridge_Uni to become the first university in the world to hold a democratic vote of academics on a proposal to refuse research funding and other partnerships with companies violating key climate criteria.
Full @nytimes story here 👇🏿
https://t.co/eVvxZmoC58
New @INSPIREgreenfin paper: "Greening Collateral Frameworks"
Find out why central banks should pursue an 'environmental footprint' instead of 'risk exposure' approach when decarbonising monetary policy. W/ @YannisDafermos@DanielaGabor@M_Nikolaidi
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https://t.co/NmiJWcY1Um
In this new paper we explain why central banks should decarbonise collateral frameworks based on the environmental impact of financial assets (environmental footprint approach), instead of relying solely on how exposed assets are to environmental risks (risk exposure approach).
📈 Avec une inflation digne des 70s, l'orthodoxie monétaire est de retour. Pour les néolibéraux, tout est bon pour éradiquer la hausse des prix (austérité, salaires stagnants, récession...)
Dans @lvslmedia@fredlemr revient sur l'origine de cette doctrine.
https://t.co/5Ys9OuWBUD
Les petits gestes citoyens restent infimes comparés aux émissions de carbone des très riches, qui prennent leurs jets privés comme on prend une trottinette. Gardons notre bon sens : ce sont à eux d’atterrir les premiers !
➜ J’étais l’invité de @loicsignor dans #OPTSD sur CNews.
Une économie florissante sur une planète à moitié invivable ?
C’est la conclusion absurde à laquelle arrivent les modèles économiques qui cherchent à évaluer l'impact de la #criseclimatique sur le PIB.
Comment, pourquoi ?
On vous explique :
https://t.co/VKc9zA9Ogs
The esg rating agencies are the veritable acme of inconsistency. A study of six of them found that they used 709 different metrics across 64 categories. Only ten categories were common to all—and they do not include such basics as greenhouse-gas emissions. https://t.co/WyqyDU56xH
Tell everyone you know, everyone you see: We are in a genuine climate emergency, it's caused by burning fossil fuels, we risk losing everything, the way out is ending the fossil fuel industry, and the sooner we do this the less we lose
Le débat organisé par la @RevueEtudes et l'Institut Rousseau entre @PikettyLeMonde et @GaelGiraud_CNRS a dépassé les 200 000 vues !
➜ C'est le moment pour ceux qui ne l'auraient pas encore vu de visionner sur notre chaîne YouTube ce débat d'actualité.
https://t.co/8BIEzNI5OH