Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative

This book is the fruit of sixteen months of work carried out by the Internation Collective (see internation.world), which aims to respond to two speeches delivered by Antio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, the first on 10 September 2018 at the UN and the second on 24 January 2019 in Davos, Switzerland, as well as to the appeals made on several occasions by Greta Thunberg. COP25, held in Madrid in December 2019, showed to what degree neither the IPCC, nor Antio Guterres, nor Greta Thunberg, nor the youth movements she has sparked throughout the world, are being listened to by the political and economic powers . while public opinion, with the exception of the younger generation, seems to have lost its voice in relation to these appeals, despite the increase in the environmental vote, for example in Europe.

From ten different angles, corresponding to ten chapters, this work proposes:

▪▪ a diagnosis of the present situation; 

▪▪ a theoretical formalization of its causes, consequences and possible transformations;

▪▪ a method of large-scale social experimentation, based on the rapid transfer of the results of contributory research – fundamental research, applied research and action research – in the form of contributory economic models;

▪▪ the sharing of results and experiments by consolidating them on a global scale through a specific organization inspired by the concept of the internation, outlined by Marcel Mauss in 1920.

The ten angles are: 1) epistemology; 2) territorial dynamics; 3) contributory economics; 4) contributory research; 5) internation and nations; 6) internation as institution; 7) ethics in the Anthropocene era; 8) contributory design; 9) addiction and the dopaminergic system; 10) global political economy of carbon (fire) and silicon (information).