Chemin faisant

Dec 11

sur la grippe porcine -

je relaie le blog de Fabrice Nicolino et la television suisse à l’origine de cette enquete.

Dec 10

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

Dec 08

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”.

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