Life in the remains

A friend writes to us:  » Faced with the current disasters, you mention at the end of your Manifesto the chimpanzees of the future(1), the increased audience of the environmentalist movements which « is not necessarily a good sign. There is no smoke without fire ». This one, « ever thicker since 1972, emanates from the earth scorched by the industrialists, it signals the fire but in no way puts it out. It is not the saving deluge ». What do you think the saving flood would be? How to better investigate, reveal the objectives, denounce collusion? How do we encourage critical thinking and perspectives? What actions to take? « . First of all, what is left to save? The empire of destruction has not ceased to expand since the Neolithic period, constantly strengthening the scientific and material (industrial) bases of its power, to launch itself at the dawn of the 19th century in a general (final?) offensive against the living. What since Jean Chaptal, the chemist and entrepreneur, ministe …
Notes et références
  1. Cf. Le Monde, 25 avril 2018 et l’article original de Science, en ligne sur www.piecesetmaindoeuvre.com
  2. Cf. Le Monde, 25 avril 2018 et l’article original de Science, en ligne sur www.piecesetmaindoeuvre.com
  3. Cf. Marshall Sahlins, Âge de pierre, âge d’abondance : l’économie des sociétés primitives (Gallimard, 1976).
  4. Cf. Stephen Greenblatt, Quattrocento, Flammarion, 2013.
  5. Dante, La vita nuova.

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