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By Michel Tarrier , March 20, 2009.

"The behavior of men confined in front of nature determines their behavior limited them. "
(Karl Marx)

"Capitalism has the power to transform into drug immediately and continuously, the venom which is launched in the face, and revel in it. "
(Bertolt Brecht)

Illustration of Veer Munshi: "Exhortation in red ring"

Throughout the last three centuries, and with unparalleled acuity over the past decades, prophet of material progress, denying all knowledge intuitive and "illuminated" the Western tradition, Americanization and its exported image, have redefined the world around them.
If to live is "in primis" and prefer to exclude, we have not failed in this interpretation.
The result is a desolation of the biosphere, a violation of this world and of ourselves.
But this is nothing for a "mariole" based on the denial, which pokes fun at all because it has the firm conviction that the wealth acquired in a power struggle of the most disgusting privilege to serve as a survival .
By cons, one irrefutable lesson is given by global warming, cap-final of the concept of growth, shown by nine of the irreversibility of empirical development.
It is a well deserved slap.
It is finished swagger and Monsanto can still send its police genes in the neighbor's field who had not asked!
When a master of the world was going to appropriate seeds of life and be done with bees and ladybugs, ladybirds say, making us, once again, people believe that it was to save mankind , the sky is falling on the head.

Originally, all reasons that might cause an ecological crisis were obviously natural. Currently, the responsibility is looming anthropogenic almost always on the horizon, including what the newspapers headlined complacently of "natural" disasters. Even when human responsibility does not trigger the phenomenon, its influence is enough to give greater amplitude to the disaster. This point of view illustrated by examples. On 6 January 2007, an earthquake of 3.1 on the Richter scale was felt from the Basel region of Switzerland into Alsace. This followed a 3.4 magnitude earthquake first dated December 8, followed by an aftershock measuring 2.5 on 15 December. These tremors of the earth's crust were related to the construction of a mega geothermal plant. Officials recognized that injecting high pressure water at 5000 meters deep had caused these shocks. And think again of the effects of the last tsunami in the Indian Ocean, multiplied by coastal degradation caused by speculative activities, especially the harmful annihilation of protective mangrove. Let's talk about as deadly flooding in Haiti and Madagascar, including deforestation and erosive effects of violent involve leaching, without forgetting to mention forest fires repetitive and not commensurate with those that are natural and sporadic perfectly healthy ecosystems. It is thus very easy to predict future cataclysms favored by human action, and even to predict the impact of potentially dangerous. We both used to playing with fire that scorched earth policy is a chronic symptom, almost familiar. Strategically, this tactic of scorched earth is a solution which is the last chance to advance by destroying everything behind, to give no chance of supplies to the enemy. Height of idiocy, our enemy is ourselves! One has only to notice and remember that we have evolved since ethologically bad our ancestors the Gauls. The sympathy we feel for Asterix held so the effect of nostalgia?

Natural disasters should be interpreted to measure how our impact intentional presides. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides, storm surges, hurricanes, storms, fires, heat waves and all natural phenomena of great magnitude affecting destructive, are stakeholders of our actions, both upstream and downstream . Upstream, our environmental degradation and induces or amplifies; downstream, our lack of foresight makes us powerless. Let us remember, for example, violent and controversial animated legitimate at the time by Haroun Tazieff, in the absence of earthquake-resistant buildings, or lack of rational prediction in case of volcanic eruptions. Now that "we know", one may wonder why we insist blithely build, then rebuild, megacities in exposed sites? If the thought of urban policy makers is limited to the representation of historical time of electoral mandate, or at most a few generations, geologists are there to put in relativity geophysics. If our progress both destroys and does not save in advance, it is really harmful. The monotheistic habit to think that Nature is tamed and domesticated, rigidly controlled and to thank you, has serious consequences. In environmental governance, and discrediting the other gender, other race, the other species, the weight of religion was really that of an anvil. When it goes wrong, it is the moral legitimacy of the sanction that takes over our delinquency and economic incompetence of our guilt. It flies in the emotional wanderings, we repent of our ills caused by invoking curses and calamities of an angry Earth, is made out of an angry god theological kit and cantankerous as if it were a human entity! Deus ex machina! This is the Iron Age, or rather a feudal and theocratic time. According to Michael Marcavage, director of the organization Repent America Evangelist, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was an "act of God" to destroy "a sinful city" which was to take a homosexual festival! As for the vision of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the religious party Shas Israel, it was God's punishment on a subsequent approval by George W. Bush to dismantle the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip! Losses caused by Hurricane related mainly to the fact that New Orleans, surrounded on three sides by water, was built below sea level and that its protection against flooding is provided by a permanent system of levees and pumps that prevention was rendered ineffective by a chronic lack of investment, especially in needy neighborhoods as the Lower Ninth Ward. When the disaster relief efforts of gravity and the age-old racial segregation were in the dock. The vast majority of victims were the poor African-American, with no possibility of escape, or even repressed supermarket white areas that could serve as their shelter. A disaster based on lies and amplified by the unfair rules of capitalism.

The feeling of the fear of God, invented guarantor of our life, was probably one of the themes of philosophy lectures. From Kierkegaard to Heidegger, philosophers denied it, even admitting in seeking to overcome them than they were not free. "Being afraid of God, death, disease, of itself, does not explain the phenomenon of fear. Fear being paramount, it may be present even without these objects "Cioran said. And if at least this theology of fear of divine punishment and we implicitly taught obedience to the laws of Nature. But it is nothing and we continue to make our "cochoncetés in peace under the pretext that we were blessed," as poétisait Léo Ferré. Spinoza argued already that, based on the opinion, the goal of religion was to overawe the men. By the standards of a major ecological crisis, while the party is over, the carrots are cooked and we all lose - including those who, in a kind of stupor hilarious and balance that gives them the simple Wearing a suit and tie still think pulling the strings - if we examine the ecological behavior, at least monotheistic societies, we see that the social utility of collective rule has failed. It therefore agrees to pay the piper and it is arranged with the sanction. Our recipes are null and Homo sapiens credulus (and perfidus) has always been a funny business, not only with his god, but also with natural laws. He apprehends the disaster he calls the natural mode of a negative for the miracle, and that the balance with both. But the scale of nature, the notion of destiny, fate good or bad, has no meaning, the rules are a constant. There is no hand of providence, nor misery, neither miracle nor curse, nor good fortune, or bird of ill omen, or spider in the evening-hope. The principle of determinism and causality are not the religious fatalism. The events that occur in nature and their circumstances are natural, that's it!

To place ourselves in this ecological tension where we are entangled, it is best to consider the scientific definition of such a crisis. In the letter, an ecological crisis occurs when the living environment of a species or population changes in a way unfavorable to its survival. Following changes in abiotic factors, such order atmospheric, environmental degradation, some resources are drying up. Or they are predators whose pressure is too strong, or even the quality of life is compromised by an acme demographic (overpopulation). Spatially, the event can be local (oil spill, pollution of a river) or global (global warming). Its impact can be fragmented and restricted to a number of subjects, or cause the extinction of a species or group of species (eg habitat destruction, as is the case for great ape polar bears, or by breaking the food chain). Some major phases of extinction saw the elimination of most species on the globe. Biodiversity may paradoxically be a winner, when a species territorially exclusive releases its ecological niche for the benefit of diversification. The duration of an ecological crisis is variable, a short time to millions of years. Without producing a final extinction, an ecological crisis can lead a hard life for survivors. The horrors that our modernity imposes on indigenous peoples are in this category. Another example is the exodus of people no longer enjoying adequate conditions of sedentary life or suffering from food crises (if the school is "suicide" group of lemmings). These are environmental refugees, or eco-refugees, such as Africans seeking to land on the European shore of the western Mediterranean or Latin Americans that poverty forces, by Mexico, to enter the United States. Their number is already estimated at 200 million people (Source: Population Division of the United Nations), twice more than in 1980. There were only 600,000 a year in the 1960s and will increase exponentially. They join other migrants, those countries at war, such as 30,000 Somalis to flee fighting between government forces and Islamic militias, complete the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to win, dead or alive, ribs Yemen, where the grape of the Yemeni Coast Guard expects.

Our crisis offers the combination of all threats to biotic and abiotic orders. It is the result of overpopulation, dominated by a caste system and capricious, an aggressive takeover of technologies and contrary to the slightest environmental rules, a systematic abuse of uses illustrated by an intensive chemical agriculture and decimated the interdependencies that govern us, all inducing pollution is second to none, resource depletion, erosion whose corollary is rampant desertification fatal. It should not be very smart to understand that such a program could make life unbearable for everyone on Earth, and will participate in the phase-selective and the young Homo sapiens. Height of injustice to those who believe in "good faith", this will be the innocent who will meet early in the furnace and so, once again, a god will recognize the "dogs". The opening date from this point of no return for the planet Earth would be 2050. All the expertise to lead this time of mid-century, also taking into account an event as binding as that of the end of the era of fossil fuels and the inability to replace such a scale by alternative technologies. The inescapable fascination of growth and development of all-out, like commercialism extolled, have paved the path to global disintegration. The ecological economic locomotive without rails will not go much further. Our ignorance of the balances of the Earth, our desire for conquest and expansion to amass, pile up, store satisfaction and cynically turned against us. What had they learned in school, at university, the brothel, at Mass and before the CRT? "Man has destroyed one by one the defense systems of the planetary organism" says Jean-Marie Pelt. Such a finding does not preclude some to continue, by deleting these arguments are just facts and a part of humanity is already suffering badly. The traditional economy was built on a social model only, ignoring the ecology of our species. Earth was not an inexhaustible granary, our mining managements of ecosystems and resources were at least misleading. With our reverse logic, our ridiculous pretensions, we go out losers, arms dangling, wild eyes, a constant face to face with Nature. Earth was a living island, Gaia theory and homeostatic walking the blue planet, telluric home of mankind, was not a tale to lull the child prodigies but to awaken retarded adults. Everything was all over and we proceeded into slices, like the corner butcher. And billions of sausage, it can hurt the planet! Today, we blew most thermostats and we are lost. There, between Mother Earth and all of us, like an umbilical cord sacred. And landowners who cut are aliens. But: "Man has in him a taste for destruction. And it is not preachy self-righteous that will end this curse that we carry in our genes ... The human is the same shit everywhere. With this in mind, I do not see what you can do other than to insult humanity, denouncing its absurdity and cruelty ... "writes Patrick Declerck.

The fate of the island of Natividad is an example against that of Easter Island, or Haiti ... In Trinidad, a small autonomous community of 300 Mexican fishermen took the lead of quotas imposed by governmental authorities. Spearfishermen high risk, they also exploit the advantage of abalone, a univalve shell very profitable because food excellent and popular. After, initially with blindness, overexploited their environment, this community has established a policy of regulated charges and strict preservation, creating its own marine reserves and a draconian surveillance against looting. By the sagacity of its inhabitants, a site apparently hostile has become a model of environmental preservation and resource management concerned, namely marine. This is a model of what could be a benevolent dictatorship whose advent green (how?) Would be the sole and exclusive remedy to stop the mismanagement world. But such a model does not interest us only if it is folklorisable, able to occupy the niche of a television documentary of conscience between two pubs productivist. We too would be fearful if he were to threaten our overall bad manners.

This observation is reminiscent of the allegory of Plato's cave, the men locked in a cave, their backs to the entrance and seeing only their shadows and those projected by objects behind them. Ecologically, this home not reality, this denial of the evidence on behalf of belief, are not just metaphorical, but pure representation. Over the windows of our homes are bigger, we are trained on a television and less we see the real landscape.

It is this crisis which is now subject. You can always add a sideline religious and probabilistic, go get a prediction from Nostradamus and Bible, it does not change that we are both fully perpetrators and victims.

From a social perspective, monotheism breeds fascism, imperialism and capitalism. From a philosophical standpoint, it underlies the dichotomy, duality and the absence of diversity. From a psychological standpoint, it generates designs rigid, linear and fixed. And an agricultural point of view, it gives birth to the monoculture and the destruction of biodiversity. Teaching a anthropocentrism revealed thus leads somewhere, the negation of life and a permanent stay of man on Earth. One might wonder why the success of the monotheistic religions!

(Source: LaRevueDesRessources.org )

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