Books & ideas

The Accumulation of Energies

Marius Bickhardt — 2025-03-11T06:30:00Z

Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz provides the first genealogical study of the concept of energy transition. In the face of discourses that keep postponing “the transition” to a later date, Fressoz takes up the unprecedented political challenge of a complete phase-out of fossil fuels.

Mines to the rescue of the planet?

Romain Mainieri — 2025-03-04T06:30:00Z

To achieve energy transition, we will need to extract as much metal in the next 20 years as we have done in the entire history of mankind. This is ‘one of the great paradoxes of our times'.

Six Centuries of Climate Debate

Alexis Vrignon — 2023-11-02T09:00:00Z

From the very beginning of the modern era, Western societies have been debating over and worrying about the climate, its evolution and the responsibility of humans. On this topic, as on many others, the idea of a long prevailing great division between nature and culture is undermined.

The Planet in Court

Carola Klöck — 2023-10-03T07:30:00Z

The growing number of legal cases concerning climate inaction marks another step in the fight to protect the environment. What are these cases? Who are the accused? Are their effects only symbolic?

Autonomy: A Return to Earth

Luca Paltrinieri — 2023-05-09T08:39:35Z

Accumulation in a world of finite resources: Such is the vortex into which the moderns are thrown. Current ecological concerns, however, should also be viewed as a metamorphosis of the social question.

Climate Hope

Pierre André — 2022-11-10T12:37:46Z

Even though scientific data give us grounds for pessimism, philosopher Darrel Moellendorf shows that hoping for climate justice is not vain. To mobilize hope, he puts mass mobilization, technological progress and realistic utopia forward.

The Oligarchs' Charter

Timothy Kuhner — 2020-10-20T07:00:00Z

With taxpayer suffrage abolished and universal suffrage achieved, political participation in our democratic societies should no longer be conditioned on property ownership. However, as Timothy Kuhner shows, politics remain subservient to capital.

Deciding Together

Florent Gougou & Simon Persico — 2020-07-16T07:00:00Z

From October 2019 to May 2020, 150 French citizens have been involved in a participatory democracy experiment, defining measures to fight against climate change. But how, and through which legal process, can the citizens' proposals be implemented?

The Politics of Antibiotics

Adrien Allorant & Jules Naudet — 2019-05-30T07:00:00Z

The growing resistance to antibiotics potentially threatens the future of mankind. Ramanan Laxminarayan suggests that this major political challenge requires as much international cooperation as the fight against global warming does.

Advocating for Climate Equity

Pierre André — 2019-04-01T06:00:00Z

Climate change does not affect all of us equally. Developed countries are the largest contributors to global warming, but the main victims are the poorest and future generations. This raises a rarely addressed moral and political problem.