En 2015, Joe Sacco s'est rendu par deux fois dans les territoires du Nord-Ouest du Canada, au dessous de l'Arctique. Il est allé à la rencontre des Denes, un peuple autochtone. L'auteur nous raconte l'histoire de ce peuple, ses traditions, restées intactes pour certaines, les premières rencontres avec les anglais.
Pendant longtemps les peuples indigènes du Grand Nord, vivant sur des terres non propices à la colonisation agricole, restèrent livrés à eux-mêmes, jusqu'à ce que la découverte de pétrole et d'or incite le gouvernement à officialiser son autorité sur eux, comme sur leurs terres. À cette période, les autorités s'appropriaient les territoires, non plus par les massacres, mais cliniquement, méthodiquement, et de façon administrative - grâce à des traités.
En lisant ceux-ci, on n'échappe pas à l'impression que les « Indiens » ont donné la terre où ils vivaient en échange de la promesse d'une annuité de quelques dollars, de quelques outils et de médailles pour ceux qui se disaient leurs chefs. Aujourd'hui, la fracturation hydraulique ajoute la pollution à la spoliation initiale.
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An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we livebr>br>We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat of drought, heat, wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earth''s human geography in the coming decades. br>br> In this rousing call to arms, Royal Society Science Prize-winning author Gaia Vince demonstrates how we can plan for and manage this unavoidable climate migration. The vital message of this book is that migration is not the problem-it''s the solution. Rich countries in the north are facing demographic crises and labour shortages. Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening data and original reporting, Vince shows how migration brings benefits not only to migrants themselves, but to host countries, who benefit economically as well as culturally. A borderless world is not something to fear: in fact, studies suggest that it would double global GDP. As Vince describes, we will need to move northwards as a species, into the habitable fringes of Europe and Asia, into Canada and the greening Arctic circle. Nowhere will be spared the devastating impacts of climate disruption, but some places, Vince identifies, will also see some benefits from rising temperatures and growing populations.br>br> While the climate catastrophe is finally getting the attention it deserves, the inevitability of mass migration has been largely ignored. In Nomad Century, Vince provides, for the first time, an examination of the most pressing question facing humanity.> Lire la suite Fermer

Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.

In The Earth Transformed , ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited and conserved the natural environment - and draws salutary conclusions about what the future may bring.

In this revelatory book, Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, how the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis.

Taking us from the beginning of recorded history to the present day, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind''s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.> Lire la suite Fermer

Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical. It is an inspiring, necessary book about agriculture because it is not just about agriculture." Trained as a scientist, Fukuoka rejected both modern agribusiness and centuries of agricultural practice, deciding instead that the best forms of cultivation mirror nature's own laws. Over the next three decades he perfected his so-called "do-nothing" technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. Whether you're a guerrilla gardener or a kitchen gardener, dedicated to slow food or simply looking to live a healthier life, you will find something here--you may even be moved to start a revolution of your own.
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