Roger MacGovern, an innocent on death row
C’est sur le blog de Michel Terestchenko que je viens de découvrir Roger MacGovern, le site qui lui est consacré (anglais/français et néerlandais)- et l’article récent de Libération:“La gentillesse contre la folie”
George Monbiot: this is about us ( Copenhagen)
Published in The Guardian, dec.the 15th
“This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.
The meeting at Copenhagen confronts us with our primal tragedy. We are the universal ape, equipped with the ingenuity and aggression to bring down prey much larger than itself, break into new lands, roar its defiance of natural constraints. Now we find ourselves hedged in by the consequences of our nature, living meekly on this crowded planet for fear of provoking or damaging others. We have the hearts of lions and live the lives of clerks…”
“…Today the battlelines are drawn between expanders and restrainers; those who believe that there should be no impediments, and those who believe that we must live within limits. The vicious battles we have seen so far between greens and climate change deniers, road safety campaigners and speed freaks, real grassroots groups and corporate-sponsored astroturfers are just the beginning. This war will become much uglier as people kick against the limits that decency demands.”
In my Paris studio, work in progress, december.
Luzula campestris
Luzule champêtre.
J’utilise souvent mon carnet de notes comme herbier de poche
I often use my notebook as a pocket “herbier.”
BILBOQUET PLANETAIRE( MARS )
perfume, organic ink and china ink on paper
2009
FISH DIVING
willow branches/branches de saule.
1987
Collection Camille Muller. Paris
Console table by Bernard Wauthier-Wurmser/ console de Bernard Wauthier-Wurmser
Photo Philippe Girardeau
sur la grippe porcine
je relaie le blog de Fabrice Nicolino et la television suisse à l’origine de cette enquete.
AMBER PLANET
collage with amber perfume/collage avec parfum d’ambre
2009
BERCE GEANTE
hogweed sap and pierre noire on paper/jus de berce et pierre noire sur papier
2008
IRIS
pencil and watercolor on paper/crayon et aquarelle sur papier.
2008
KALANCHOE BLEU
mine de carbone sur papier de chanvre.2008
Why Copenhagen may be a disaster
Via Tom’s dispatch
“…Because climate change is not like any other issue we’ve ever dealt with. Because the adversary here is not Republicans, or socialists, or deficits, or taxes, or misogyny, or racism, or any of the problems we normally face — adversaries that can change over time, or be worn down, or disproved, or cast off. The adversary here is physics.
Physics has set an immutable bottom line on life as we know it on this planet. For two years now, we’ve been aware of just what that bottom line is: the NASA team headed by James Hansen gave it to us first. Any value for carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million is not compatible “with the planet on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.” That bottom line won’t change: above 350 and, sooner or later, the ice caps melt, sea levels rise, hydrological cycles are thrown off kilter, and so on.
And here’s the thing: physics doesn’t just impose a bottom line, it imposes a time limit. This is like no other challenge we face because every year we don’t deal with it, it gets much, much worse, and then, at a certain point, it becomes insoluble — because, for instance, thawing permafrost in the Arctic releases so much methane into the atmosphere that we’re never able to get back into the safe zone. Even if, at that point, the U.S. Congress and the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee were to ban all cars and power plants, it would be too late.
Oh, and the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is already at 390 parts per million, even as the amount of methane in the atmosphere has been spiking in the last two years. In other words, we’re over the edge already. We’re no longer capable of “preventing” global warming, only (maybe) preventing it on such a large scale that it takes down all our civilizations…”
Bill MacKibben, founder of 350.org
COPENHAGEN.Naomi Klein's call for disobedience
Naomi Klein asks for civil disobedience.
The Copenhagen deal may turn into the worst kind of disaster capitalism, Naomi Klein said last night. In her speech to Klimaforum09, the “people’s summit” she told the thousand or so campaigners and activists that this was a chance to carry on building the new convergence, the movement of movements that began “all those years ago in Seattle, fighting against the privatisation of life itself”.
6 milliards d’autres .Les témoins du climat
Documentaire de Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Via le blog des Humains Associés
“I read much of the night and go south in the winter”
T.S. Eliot reads part of his poem THE WASTE LAND
I am lucky enough to have a fac-simile version of it with the corrections of Ezra Pound.
