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Luc Ferry: "The seven ecologies"

2020-02-12T20:01:30.884Z


CHRONICLE - Today there are at least seven major trends, sometimes divided themselves into subsections, which explains in passing the difficulties that environmentalists have always had to unify, their differences being sometimes more important to their eyes that concern for the environment.


Talking about ecology in the singular today has absolutely no meaning. The different currents which claim to be so are in fact so multiple and divergent that to want to group them under the same chapter is doomed to failure.

Today there are at least seven major trends, sometimes divided themselves into subsections, which explains in passing the difficulties that environmentalists have always had to unify, their differences being sometimes more important to them than concern for the environment. To start with the latest, there is now an ecology that calls itself "decolonial" because it intends to link what is rightly or wrongly called the "ecological crisis" with colonization and slavery. She is claimed by movements like "Extinction / Rebellion", by the "Indigenous people of the Republic" and she found a worldwide echo with Greta Thunberg. She professes a radical critique of capitalism to which she reproaches the exploitation of soils, of people

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