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Le changement climatique : Menace pour la démocratie ?
Valéry Laramée de Tannenberg

Without a major reorientation of our modes of development, the climate will continue to change: by the end of the century, the average global temperature could be as much as 4°C higher than it was at the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Unprecedented in both its amplitude and, above all, its speed, this warming will have a major impact on water cycles, biodiversity, agriculture, energy production and human geography. It will clearly also affect political life. Because as climatologists, political scientists and military strategists alike agree, while climate change won’t necessarily cause crises, it will increase their consequences dramatically. By making living conditions even more difficult in some parts of the world, it will destabilize societies and force whole populations to emigrate. Pressure on arable land and access to water is likely to be intensified, creating an inherent risk for conflicts. All of which will weaken any political institution that wasn’t prepared for that evolution.

So that’s what’s at stake for western democracy: creating a new type of development to cope with these challenges over the long term.

This short, incisive essay studies the consequences of climate change in terms of migrations, food security, access to water, etc. as well as its impact on our political institutions. Illustrated with a great number of examples, from Europe and around the world, it provides the essential keys to understanding what’s at stake for western democracy: what can we do to keep the current climate-change crisis from leading to political conflicts.

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  • Publication date : 14/09/2017
  • Size : 13 x 20,5 cm, 144 p., 12,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-03016-5
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