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Danger d'extinction: Changements climatiques et menace nucléaire
Lorsque deux bombes nucléaires sont tombées sur Hiroshima et Nagasaki les 6 et 9 août 1945, le monde entier a réalisé que l’humanité avait atteint un point de non-retour dans sa capacité d’autodestruction. Aujourd’hui, l’Anthropocène est en train de provoquer la sixième extinction de masse et tous les signaux sont au hausse des émissions de GES, fonte des glaciers, feux de forêt, inondations, réfugiés climatiques…
Pour Chomsky, ces deux menaces exigent une réponse qui ne peut être que de portée mondiale. Dans un contexte de montée en puissance des grandes entreprises mondialisées qui ont privé les États de leur capacité de façonner l’avenir, il plaide pour la signature urgente de traités internationaux contraignants sur le climat et l’armement, et lance un appel à une mobilisation populaire sans précédent.
«Seul Noam Chomsky a su communiquer avec une telle passion les liens qui unissent les deux catastrophes d’origine humaine auxquelles fait face la civilisation, soit le bouleversement du climat et l’apocalypse nucléaire, et jamais n’a-t-il lancé ses mises en garde et ses appels à l’action de façon aussi impressionnante.»
– Daniel Ellsberg, lanceur d’alerte des Pentagon Papers
Pour Chomsky, ces deux menaces exigent une réponse qui ne peut être que de portée mondiale. Dans un contexte de montée en puissance des grandes entreprises mondialisées qui ont privé les États de leur capacité de façonner l’avenir, il plaide pour la signature urgente de traités internationaux contraignants sur le climat et l’armement, et lance un appel à une mobilisation populaire sans précédent.
«Seul Noam Chomsky a su communiquer avec une telle passion les liens qui unissent les deux catastrophes d’origine humaine auxquelles fait face la civilisation, soit le bouleversement du climat et l’apocalypse nucléaire, et jamais n’a-t-il lancé ses mises en garde et ses appels à l’action de façon aussi impressionnante.»
– Daniel Ellsberg, lanceur d’alerte des Pentagon Papers
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Published November 17, 2020
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Noam Chomsky
978 books17.4k followersAvram Noam Chomsky is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American left as a consistent critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, and corporate influence on political institutions and the media.
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants (his father was William Chomsky) in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B.F. Skinner.
An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard M. Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. An anti-Zionist, Chomsky considers Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be worse than South African–style apartheid, and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.
Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mass media. Chomsky and his ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Since 2017, he has been Agnese Helms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
Born to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants (his father was William Chomsky) in Philadelphia, Chomsky developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. During his postgraduate work in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Chomsky developed the theory of transformational grammar for which he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B.F. Skinner.
An outspoken opponent of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as an act of American imperialism, in 1967 Chomsky rose to national attention for his anti-war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". Becoming associated with the New Left, he was arrested multiple times for his activism and placed on President Richard M. Nixon's list of political opponents. While expanding his work in linguistics over subsequent decades, he also became involved in the linguistics wars. In collaboration with Edward S. Herman, Chomsky later articulated the propaganda model of media criticism in Manufacturing Consent, and worked to expose the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. His defense of unconditional freedom of speech, including that of Holocaust denial, generated significant controversy in the Faurisson affair of the 1980s. Chomsky's commentary on the Cambodian genocide and the Bosnian genocide also generated controversy. Since retiring from active teaching at MIT, he has continued his vocal political activism, including opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq and supporting the Occupy movement. An anti-Zionist, Chomsky considers Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be worse than South African–style apartheid, and criticizes U.S. support for Israel.
Chomsky is widely recognized as having helped to spark the cognitive revolution in the human sciences, contributing to the development of a new cognitivistic framework for the study of language and the mind. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, contemporary capitalism, U.S. involvement and Israel's role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and mass media. Chomsky and his ideas are highly influential in the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements. Since 2017, he has been Agnese Helms Haury Chair in the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.
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December 10, 2025
Die Atombombenabwürfe auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki 1945 verdeutlichten, dass die Menschheit einen Punkt der potenziellen Selbstzerstörung erreicht hatte. Heute treibt das Anthropozän ein sechstes Massensterben voran, erkennbar an steigenden Treibhausgasemissionen, schmelzenden Gletschern, verheerenden Waldbränden und wachsenden Strömen von Klimamigranten.
Für Chomsky erfordern diese existenziellen Gefahren – Klimawandel und nukleare Bedrohung – zwingend eine globale Antwort. Angesichts der wachsenden Macht transnationaler Großunternehmen, die Staaten in ihrer Handlungsfähigkeit einschränken, plädiert er für die sofortige Unterzeichnung verbindlicher internationaler Klima- und Rüstungsverträge und ruft zu einer beispiellosen Mobilisierung der Bevölkerung auf, um die planetare Krise abzuwenden.
Für Chomsky erfordern diese existenziellen Gefahren – Klimawandel und nukleare Bedrohung – zwingend eine globale Antwort. Angesichts der wachsenden Macht transnationaler Großunternehmen, die Staaten in ihrer Handlungsfähigkeit einschränken, plädiert er für die sofortige Unterzeichnung verbindlicher internationaler Klima- und Rüstungsverträge und ruft zu einer beispiellosen Mobilisierung der Bevölkerung auf, um die planetare Krise abzuwenden.
January 11, 2026
Le premier que je termine en 2026. C’est de 2020 mais c’est clairement à lire. Dans un monde fragile, Chomsky nous fait réfléchir et à créer une tempête de questionnements.
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