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les acteurs politiques que l’on assassine le plus volontiers aujourd’hui, ce sont les militants écologistes39.

For John Fullerton, the banker who walked away from Wall Street, here lies the source of the problem. ‘We’ve reached the logical conclusion of this expansionist economic paradigm,’ he says. ‘Unless we can achieve magical decoupling we have an exponential function on a closed system planet … yet the finance system has no in-built plateau, it can’t

Faut-il encore et encore le redire ? on ne peut appliquer à une planète naturellement limitée un principe artificiel illimité. En même temps que le réenchantement

Crops that need fewer chemical inputs, are more resistant to drought, and get higher yields – what’s not to like? It sounds like a win-win for people and planet. Strangely, many environmentalists are strongly opposed to cross-breeding and genetic modification of crops even though they have been incredibly important for protecting ecosystems and

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to

Delving deeper still into this ideology, arriving at the maximum misanthropy terminus, the ‘Deep Green Resistance’ minions of Derrick Jensen meanwhile have fever dreams of a total collapse of human civilisation. Jensen would not stop at the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Like Zerzan, Jensen prefers a neo-lithic jam. For him,

Two prominent philosophers proved to be especially influential members. The first was Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor who is the contemporary successor to John Rawls in defining the concept of justice. At the time, he was writing an essay titled “The Case Against Perfection: What’s Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic