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Claude A. Garcia

@claudegarcia.bsky.social

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Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Nov 19

I am a scientist, started counting trees and now trying to understand people. I move between ecology, economics, behavioural sciences and philosphy.

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 5d

[1/8] Le géographe Moïse Tsayem (Le Mans Université) analyse la "procrastination climatique" des États. Il montre comment trente ans de COP ont produit peu d’avancées concrètes, entre engagements recyclés, inertie diplomatique et tensions géopolitiques. #HGGSP #geography #COP30

De COP en COP, une géopolitique de la procrastination climatique

Après 30 ans de COP et trop peu d’actes, la COP30 à Belém sera-t-elle enfin celle de l’action climatique ?

theconversation.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social · 19d

💚 The dugong (Dugong dugon), gentle gardener of the sea, drifts toward silence. Its cousin, the sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), is already gone. Protect seagrass, protect life, before the ocean falls quiet 🌊

#Dugong #Seagrass #ExtinctionCrisis #BluePlanetCrew

Don’t let the dugong follow the sea cow | Letters

Letter: Diofel Tampoy reflects on an article about the first marine species to be eradicated by humans, the subject of a novel by Iida Turpeinen

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Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Oct 1

Some countries are such a mess they don't even have organized crime.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 22

Après l'assassinat de Charlie Kirk : quand la philosophie et la logique éclairent le débats démocratique.

Une analyse du paradoxe de la tolérance qui nous concerne tous.
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La Démocratie ne doit pas raser gratis

Nous le constatons tous, les réseaux sociaux sont envahis par les d’outrances verbales et les déclarations haineuses, souvent justifiés au nom de la liberté radicale d’expression. Et cela déborde de n...

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Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 21

The House is Burning. We Are Inside.
My latest essay.
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The House is Burning. We Are Inside.

Four piles of bodies lie in the courtyard, sorted by how they died. The house has finished burning.

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Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), vol. 1, ch. 7, note 4.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

Any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law.
Incitement to intolerance and persecution should be criminal — just like incitement to murder, kidnapping, or slavery.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

Therefore, in the name of tolerance, we should not tolerate the intolerant.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

But:
we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary, even by force — for they may not engage in rational debate.
They may forbid their followers to listen, and instead answer with fists or pistols.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

This does not mean we must always suppress intolerant philosophies.
As long as they can be countered by rational argument and public opinion, suppression would be unwise.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, and if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against their onslaught, then the tolerant will be destroyed — and tolerance with them.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 18

The paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 12

One planet, different worlds.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 12

#Paris #BiennalePhotoClimat2025
📆 From September 12 to October 12. 📍Place de la Concorde, Paris.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Éclipse de lune

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Aug 29

Si vous pensez vivre dans un monde concurrentiel à somme nulle, perdre moins que son prochain est préférable à gagner moins que lui. L'ironie est que le fondement de cette pensée est en accord avec le concept des limites planétaires.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 28

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:

Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Aug 29

@volts.wtf I think you will enjoy reading this paper - developping and expanding this same argument. Choices we make in times of crisis. www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 28

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Planète Mer @planetemer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Du 12 septembre au 12 octobre, retrouvez-nous au cœur de la 3e édition de Photoclimat, la première Biennale environnementale et sociale.
Cette biennale met en lumière le travail de terrain de 50 ONG et fondations, dont Planète Mer, via la photographie contemporaine et de reportage.
#Photoclimat2025

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Capitán Swing @capitanswing.bsky.social · Aug 20

París ha naturalizado la plaza del ayuntamiento y la ha convertido en un bosque urbano.

¿Cómo? Con voluntad política y elevando el suelo para dar espacio a las raíces de los árboles.

Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Aug 16

Muchas gracias por estas explicaciones claras. ¿Tiene las referencias? Es lo unico que falta y se lo quiero compartir a mis estudiantes.

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · Aug 14

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Southern countries have activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism to bring in more planes, personnel, and support.
Working closely with @HadjaLahbib & @EU_ECHO to make it happen.
European solidarity means action — not just words.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Aug 13

From the Montreal Protocol on Ozone to the Paris Agreement on climate, and to the Minamata Convention on mercury, multilateral agreements unite countries to protect people and planet.

Now, #INC5 aims to add another milestone: a #PlasticsTreaty.

Explore more: www.unep.org/multilateral...

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Pierre H Guignard @guignardph.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Accord de Paris + 10” par Pierre Henri Guignard et Anne Tézenas du Montcel : réservez dès maintenant votre exemplaire du Ramses 2026 de l’IFRI, à paraître le 3 septembre. www.ifri.org/fr/sommaires...

Ramses 2026. Un nouvel échiquier | Ifri

Un échiquier mondial haché par les vertiges de puissance...

www.ifri.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 14

‘It looks like I’ve gone 10 rounds with a boxer’: when hay fever becomes debilitating – and potentially deadly

Often dismissed as summertime sniffles, the condition that affects a quarter of UK adults can lead to serious and debilitating health problems

www.theguardian.com

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Rebelión Científica España @esrebelcientif.bsky.social · Apr 29

🔴 Post de urgencia: Calambrazo

Conviene recalcar que el problema no son los sistemas de generación renovable. El problema es el modelo de implantación de los mismos que han impuesto las grandes empresas, más preocupadas por sus beneficios que del bien común.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jun 5

You've probably heard of Stanley Milgram's 'obedience to authority' experiments

By inducing participants to administer apparently serious electric shocks to someone else, in a fake experiment, Milgram showed that we'll usually obey authority over our own conscience

Or so the story goes...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 7

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.