Declare a climate emergency

“Our house is burning and we are watching Netflix. » The climate emergency is not a militant slogan, it is a scientific reality. To confront the greatest peril in the history of civilizations, it is no longer enough to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050; we must halve global emissions in a few years. What if it’s too late to transition? What if, far from current gradualist policies, our only chance was to declare a state of climate emergency? What if we needed a general mobilisation of society, as only war situations have managed to generate in the past? Researcher Aurélien Boutaud answers all these questions in the affirmative: according to him, we need to emerge from apathy, take full measure of the unprecedented gravity of the situation and provide the radical responses it requires. So let's declare a state of emergency and save what can still be saved. And to those who claim that this would not be democratic, the author reminds us of the obvious: there will be no democracy possible in a world in turmoil.