After a long suspense, the COP27 therefore ended with mixed results. The creation of a helping fund for poor countries affected by climate change was rightly praised. But capital points, including in fossil fuels, have been treated as if it were still possible to ignore the urgency before which we are. Difficult not to see in this second point a reason to continue to despair; Especially in a context which, with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, has been weighing another danger for months.
It is however possible to envisage the situation in a positive way. This is the whole paradox of the drama, global, that the Ukrainian tragedy and its multiple geopolitical consequences cause. Because, if the world seems more than ever on the banks of the precipice, a path finally seems to open within intellectual spheres, public debate … and even, therefore, within international summits which we no longer expected . A path to a real consideration of the ecological question, in its triple physical, biological and political dimension.
Let us consider, without completeness, contributions to public debate from the intellectual world over the past months. Not to mention the group of intergovernmental experts on climate development (IPCC), neither university or militant works, nor the last books of big names in ecology and remaining in relatively short or affordable formats by the Non-specialists, many publications have enriched the discussion. There was the number of the review Green devoted to “war ecology” in all its dimensions, under the leadership of the philosopher Pierre Charbonnier.
new convergences
There was the report on the 2022 global inequalities [threshold, 496 pages, 24 euros] including a chapter on carbon inequalities, and the note of Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz documenting the macroeconomic difficulties that will entail the ecological transition. There was also the relationship that The Rousseau Institute has devoted to fossil fuels seen as “new subprimes” or, to exceed the only hexagonal borders – because this movement obviously exceeds them – the last edition of the world panorama published by the International Agency Energy, World Energy Outlook .
If contradictions persist, new convergences emerge from this work, beyond scientific knowledge, that we must imperatively take seriously. We tend to forget it despite the evidence: ecology and economy proceed from the same etymology. In the strict sense, one claims to study our house, the other register it. The drama is that with this decoupling the first became literally helpless and the second fool. More than any other sectoral measure, if we want to be able to act finally, it is at their meeting that we must therefore first proceed. However, this is, precisely, what these new convergences seem to make it possible now.
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