Devant les grands monuments, comme les pyramides, on ne peut qu'imaginer des masses d'individus ployant sous des fardeaux trop lourds et aux ordres de contremaîtres sadiques. Et si travailler pour Pharaon constituait en fait une forme de récompense ?

Elle avait par ailleurs annoncé il y a quelques semaines qu'elle prenait un pas de recul de ses fonctions, pour un « souci de santé » alors non divulgué.

Global projections of macroeconomic climate-change damages typically consider impacts from average annual and national temperatures over long time horizons1–6. Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes7,8. Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline without climate impacts, likely range of 11–29% accounting for physical climate and empirical uncertainty). These damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2 °C by sixfold over this near-term time frame and thereafter diverge strongly dependent on emission choices. Committed damages arise predominantly through changes in average temperature, but accounting for further climatic components raises estimates by approximately 50% and leads to stronger regional heterogeneity. Committed losses are projected for all regions except those at very high latitudes, at which reductions in temperature variability bring benefits. The largest losses are committed at lower latitudes in regions with lower cumulative historical emissions and lower present-day income. Analysis of projected sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation show an income reduction of 19% of the world economy within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.

À l'heure où nos sociétés basculent dans la surenchère technologique, certains choisissent de s'investir dans une démarche écologique qui consiste à concevoir ou à diffuser des techniques et des savoir-faire utiles, durables et accessibles à tous.