Aurélien Barao, a specialist in quantum gravity, is known to the general public through his radical commitment – his term – to political environmentalism. After Nicolas Hulot resigned during Emmanuel Macron's first term, he made his voice heard through numerous appeals, forums and books. Although he rejects the name collapse scientist, he is one of the voices carrying the day when it comes to warning of the importance and urgency of the environmental crisis.
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In his book “Hypothesis K. Science Faces Environmental Disaster,” published by Grassett, calls on his colleagues to rethink their relationship to knowledge in relation to their mission. For him, researchers must free themselves from an approach that is often utilitarian and tends little to consider the impact of their discoveries. With this condition, they will restore science's ability to destroy.
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