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Following this letter, which was addressed to parents and grandparents (and which could very well have been addressed to children, brothers and sisters…), I received the following remark: “and now, what do we do? Your ...
Thinking that “climate change, it’s for others!” is an optimism bias, as well as a clumsy error. It is indeed likely that France will suffer less than Madagascar or Cambodia. Nevertheless, French people will not ...
It’s not easy every day to be the little ecologist in the family. L’écologiste de bureau. The ecologist of the group of friends who has changed a lot, sometimes a little too much for the ...
“Humans have always adapted. This argument is very frequently used, especially by climate delayers : they admit that climate change is a problem, but that it is not so serious because “humans have always adapted“. ...
We all know about job blackmail. The Covid was certainly the best time to practice. Thousands of people have heard phrases such as “we will have to cut your salary by 20%. It’s that, or ...
Wanting to limit global warming to +2°C and communicating this is a mistake. This is a mistake because the vast majority of the French (and even the world’s) population does not know what this means, ...
Having reviewed the main climate myths, it was time to look at the unifying element of all these topics: climate models. Climate models are important simulation tools for improving our understanding of climate behaviour on ...
I started this article on toxic masculinity a little over a year ago, thinking I would never publish it. I thought this did not quite fit into Bon Pote’s editorial line. I was wrong: It ...
The IPCC synthesis work allows us to easily understand the link between human activity and climate change. We know today that there is global warming and that we are responsible for it. Yet, change is ...
“A 50°C heatwave in Paris by 2050? Stop exaggerating about your global warming!“ When thinking about global warming, expecting multiple heatwaves in the coming decades is the most intuitive. If you are old enough to ...
“IPCC recommends nuclear power!” People love to make the IPCC say anything and everything, especially about the role of nuclear power. Pro- and anti-nuclear people do not hesitate to cherry-pick: to take the information that ...
I didn’t think it was necessary to do an article on the individual pool. That was before I looked at the numbers: I didn’t realize the order of magnitude at all. Indeed, with 3 million ...
Today, about half of the world’s population live within 200 kilometers of a coastline, and an estimated one out of ten people live less than 10 m above current sea levels. For the world’s inhabitants, ...
Every year, the world’s tropical regions are the scene of nearly 100 tropical storms, half of which develop into cyclones. Fortunately, only about 15 of them “land”, i.e. touch the ground. The damage caused by ...
For a long time I thought Linkedin was the ultimate in greenwashing. That was without counting on Instagram, where some companies and influencers are having a field day spreading their deceptive and misleading practices. Even ...
So that they don’t get lost in the meanders of social media, you can now find all the Bon Pote infographics in this article! They are very good complements to the articles and have many ...
California, Siberia, Australia…spectacular images of megafires raging on different continents invaded our screens in 2019 and again in 2020. Close to home, Greece suffered from one of the most devastating wildfires on the European continent ...
Since the Citizen’s Climate Convention made its 150 proposals last summer, the expression “punitive ecology” has been used extensively, both by the press and by certain political figures. Its use is anything but random, and ...
Before reading this article, you can check out this video of Jean-Christophe Buisson, assistant director of the Figaro Magazine, talking about weather and climate: It’s normal to feel astounded after watching this. Especially since Jean-Christophe ...
Global warming leads to significant changes in yearly rainfall in different regions. Thus, since the 1970s, we have observed that the Mediterranean, Southern Africa, South Asia, and the Sahel are experiencing longer and more intense ...
Talk about sport and ecology and you will be compared to a dictator. Talk about football and boycotting the 2022 World Cup and you will be persona non grata in the evening. As we are ...
Following the publication of a scientific article at the end of February 2021, the scientific and mainstream press became passionate about the possible collapse of the Gulf Stream, rekindling the collective imagination produced by the ...
Today, let’s address one of the main subjects when talking about climate change: CO2. Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is now reaching levels 40% higher than before the industrial revolution. This human-driven CO2 rise ...
For the last few weeks, we had plenty of demands for a critical analysis on Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics”, which had a rapid acknowledgement and incredible positive feedback in a short amount of time. But ...
Some common beliefs on climate still remain and persist in the public sphere. Given the climate emergency, and in partnership with the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU), we would like to demystify ...
I got a better idea of Elon Musk’s personality when I read some articles on Waitbutwhy and his biography by Ashlee Vance a few years ago. A visionary, idealist, passionate and hard-working, he fascinates millions ...
Climate myths still remain and persist in the public sphere. Given the climate emergency, and in partnership with the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU), we would like to demystify some cliches about ...
Myths on climate still remain and persist in the public sphere. Given the climate emergency, and in partnership with the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU), we would like to demystify some cliches ...
Myths on climate still remain and persist in the public sphere. Given the climate emergency, and in partnership with the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe (INSU), we would like to demystify some cliches ...
It’s basic math: planes emit between 30 and 50 times more CO2 than trains (if you didn’t know that or if you still had a doubt, read this article). However, this calculation does not take ...
We often hear that flying is worse than taking the train for the climate… but which flight? Which train(s)? And the filling rate ??? What is the occupancy rate of a train to have the ...
Thousands of you simulated your carbon footprint and almost as many panicked when comparing the target (less than 2 tons CO2eq/year) and the share of the utility’s carbon footprint. These famous 1.3t which are displayed ...
It’s been two years since I started working on degrowth and the least I can say is that I don’t know a more overused term than this one. Every time I bring up the subject, ...
‘In the middle of Covid, it’s really not the time to quit your job’ I’ve heard that phrase about 50 times this year. With the pandemic, it was certainly not in 2020 that we had ...
We hear about climate change (almost) every day, but who has ever heard of radiative forcing? It is a notion that is not widely publicized, rarely explained, and this is a pity: it is absolutely ...
You don’t know what is the IKNOWITALLISM ? This is normal: this word did not exist before November 22, 2020! In a fit of Sunday night lyricism, I used that word to describe a phenomenon ...
This week, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a historic turning point for countries towards a sustainable world. In any case, this is what we can read since Monday morning in several ...
‘Should I quit my job‘. This is the subject of an email I received last week. One (more) person who legitimately wonders whether they should leave their job to be in line with their beliefs. ...
“AHAH he’s so stupid he didn’t understand anything” “But she doesn’t know anything, I tell you… she’s a marble, she’s not even a trained engineer!” Here are the comments that one can read since years ...
“But why do we always hit the flight when it is only 2% of the emissions? “Why sports when it represents almost no shows?” “Why always Nabilla?” This is the kind of feedback I get ...
We are only at the beginning of Greenwashing. If greenwashing is receding in its most obvious forms, bullsh*t to make oneself GREEN has never been so prevalent. Désormais moins facile à détecter, le greenwashing a ...
Name and Shame is nothing new. From Mandela’s denunciation of apartheid to Greenpeace’s preferred strategy, Name and Shame has been used for decades. This was a promise made by President E. Macron, who wanted to ...
I can’t thank enough the one who introduced me to Brandolini’s Law. I was finally able to put a name to what I most certainly lack: knowing if I should waste my time responding to ...
How can you estimate your carbon footprint, or climate footprint ? How can you know if your lifestyle is compatible with a sustainable world ? If you are asking yourself this question, you made a ...
A month ago, I published an article following up on the excellent Cambridge University paper, highlighting the 12 excuses for climate inaction. The numerous feedbacks not only helped to improve the answers to the excuses, ...
“You’re turning a blind eye to the IPCC, it’s alarming. You have too much trust in science“. If you thought that climate skeptics were no longer a thing in 2020, you would be wrong. Although ...
No one can escape it: the bubble effect is everywhere. Add to this a few confirmation biases, and you have the cocktail to ensure that your critical thinking never evolves. How is it possible that ...
Is flying an ecological nonsense? As a prologue, I’d like to quote what physicist-climatologist and author of the fifth IPCC report François-Marie Bréon said in a hearing at the National Assembly in July 2019: “I ...
Rejoice ! We have (almost) convinced the climate-skeptics. Apart from a few bad apples, no one denies the effects of human activites on climate change. On the other hand, now comes the most difficult part: ...
It was while doing my daily two minutes in hell Twitter that I came across a message from Le réveilleur that bounced off a Greenpeace tweet, whose message was quite provocative: ‘Total’s carbon footprint is ...
In the category of denial number 346, I would like the little brother of the singer please : the professional sportsman. There are millions of us who admire Federer, Messi and Ronaldo. Millions of people ...
For at least 30 years, scientists have been warning about the serious consequences of our excessive consumption. Climate change acceleration due to human activity is no longer a debate. However, we are in an unusual ...
This lockdown has really made the French change and they will prove it on May 11th. The key words will be simplicity, nature, respect of the environment... In short: live a happy sufficiency. So, I ...
It is true that sometimes we think that the mountain is too high. When Dennis Meadows tells you that it’s too late for sustainable development, and that we need to prepare for resilience, you might ...
After tackling greenwashing and carbon neutrality, it’s high time to tackle the 3rd student of the triptych ‘I don’t need to change anything! Thus, I present you ‘energy efficiency‘. More subtle, more cunning than the ...
Observation: women are responsible for climate change. Who will dare to say otherwise after seeing this scientific demonstration? Women in charge: proof in numbers Here is the proof. Just compare these two curves. The first ...
2019 has truly been a pivotal year in my life. Everything was almost fine, until I found myself on vacation for the entire month of August. Perfect to relax! …Almost. I spent 15 hours/day reading ...
Money For the past few years, I have seen my closest friends move abroad: Miami, Singapore, Toulouse, Haute-Savoie. After a flurry of departures to Luxembourg (for the climate), the latest trend is a little more ...
In 1976, Professor Cipolla published a 60-page essay describing the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as the greatest existential threat to humanity: stupidity. He divides humanity into four main categories: Intelligent, Bandit, Helpless, ...
How do we know if we are dealing with first or second degree? This is where Poe's law comes into play.
