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Luc Ferry: "There is an alternative to punitive ecology"

2021-04-06T18:34:41.655Z


EXCLUSIVE EXTRACTS - While the bill to fight against climate change is discussed in the Assembly and arouses controversy, Luc Ferry publishes Les Sept Écologies (Éditions de l'Observatoire), an overview of the movements that structure this family of thought . The...


Like an ethnologist, Luc Ferry distinguishes in his work

Les Sept Écologies

(Éditions de l'Observatoire), the “collapsing people”, those who hold the catastrophe as inevitable;

the “revolutionary alarmists”, heirs of the Marxian critique of capitalism, who plead for degrowth, as do the decolonials, ecofeminists and vegans;

reformists, for whom salvation lies in green growth and sustainable development;

and, finally, the supporters of “eco-modernism” and the circular economy (who advocate limiting the consumption and waste of resources and the production of waste), whose author is an ardent advocate.

The ravages of industrial revolutions

Modern capitalism has leaned for too long on an unreasonable use of "brutal" energies, on a demand for stupidly profitable production: it was originally a question of producing as much as possible for the cheapest possible in order to satisfy the economy. as many customers as possible and as quickly as possible, which does not

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Source: lefigaro

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