“The threat justifies a war economy”

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2023-11-26 08:00:11

INTERVIEW – Yves Laszlo, mathematician, calls on public authorities to launch a new “Manhattan Project”.

These are renowned scientists from diverse backgrounds who are calling on public authorities and the private sector for a “Manhattan Project” for the ecological transition. What a dedicated mobilization did to create the atomic bomb during the Second World War, they want to reproduce to find solutions to the climate challenge, within the constrained deadline described by the IPCC scenarios. In the Assembly, Philippe Juvin and fourteen LR deputies have just tabled a resolution to this effect. The original project is notably led by Yves Laszlo, mathematician at the University of Paris-Saclay.

LE FIGARO. – Why is special scientific mobilization needed for the ecological transition?

Yves LASZLO. – At the rate things are progressing, we are not at all on the right trajectory to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 and therefore to contain global warming. We are instead on a warming trajectory of 2 to 4 degrees, which will result…

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