Ugo Bardi

Quarante ans après Les Limites à la croissance, ce nouveau rapport choc du Club de Rome tente cette fois-ci de nous alerter sur notre consommation de ressources minérales.
Que ce soit l'or, le charbon ou le pétrole, les minéraux ont toujours... Lire la suite

Ce livre est un formidable message d’espoir : sous couvert de l’approche scientifique systémique, il nous invite à bâtir un projet sociétal désirable, une véritable transition écologique, pour faire du 21e siècle celui de la durabilité dans la... Lire la suite

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse,... Lire la suite

Nobody has to tell you that when things go bad, they go bad quickly and seemingly in bunches. Complicated structures like buildings or bridges are slow and laborious to build but, with a design flaw or enough explosive energy, take only seconds to... Lire la suite

[...] Le preoccupazioni sull'esaurimento del petrolio sono all'ordine del giorno, ma sono solo una parte di un problema molto più grande. Quando si esauriranno i minerali? Partendo da questa domanda, Ugo Bardi costruisce un racconto di tutta la... Lire la suite

In 1972, a book changed the world. The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what... Lire la suite

The “Blue Economy” is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included,... Lire la suite

El famoso informe Los límites del crecimiento, elaborado en los años setenta por el MIT para el Club de Roma, refleja que la Tierra colapsaría en el siglo XXI si se mantenía el crecimiento demográfico de la población, la industrialización, la... Lire la suite

El colapso es un declive rápido, incontrolado, inesperado y ruinoso. A lo largo de la historia, los colapsos económicos han acompañado el ocaso y la desaparición de imperios o civilizaciones enteras. La humanidad también ha vivido colapsos causados... Lire la suite

Today, we are close to the critical moment when conventional economic growth becomes impossible on a finite planet, constrained by two parallel factors: resource depletion and pollution. Tthe depletion of fossil fuels and other mineral commodities... Lire la suite