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Luc Ferry: "Against 'ecoterrorism', the circular economy"

6/28/2023, 6:18:51 PM

Highlights: It is crucial to prevent ecology from being associated with violence, deadly ideas of decline, punishment and deprivation. If it wants to assert its priorities, ecology must become constructive and finally seriously integrate the issue of recycling. For those who are not yet totally fixed in a concrete ideology, now as dogmatic and falsely scientific as the communism of the 1950s, it is time to think about an alternative... This article is for subscribers only. You still have 79% to discover. Back to the page you came from.


CHRONICLE - The formula is not a slogan. It is of a rare depth provided at least that we understand in what sense it invites us to rethink industrial production from top to bottom.

Faced with ecological catastrophism, let us remain positive, even optimistic. It is crucial to prevent ecology from being constantly associated with violence, deadly ideas of decline, punishment and deprivation, whether in terms of care for the over-65s, air travel, civil liberties or purchasing power. If it wants to assert its priorities, ecology must become constructive and finally seriously integrate the issue of recycling.

Of course, when reading this sentence, the green fundamentalists in favour of degrowth will shrug their shoulders, they will diagnose from the outset a "liberal" discourse backed by these foils that have become in their eyes innovation, development and absolute horror, consumption. For those who are not yet totally fixed in a concrete ideology, now as dogmatic and falsely scientific as the communism of the 1950s, it is time to think about an alternative...

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