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The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the ecological movement in the dialectics of Nature and Freedom, and their needful but uneasy joining against the totalizing system of technological society that threatens them both. Using this paradoxical tension as a yardstick, he probes the ways in which concepts of Nature have developed as industrialization became second nature and jeopardized the original, taken for granted until its advent. This allows Charbonneau to explain how movements and policies claiming to deal with this issue have gone wrong. A spirited critique of how the environmental movement has taken shape in relation to philosophy, politics, theology and contemporary culture, this book written in 1980 is representative of an oft-overlooked strand of French environmentalist thought, as a look back on its first decade in the public eye by a man who had originated political ecology half a century earlier.
Charbonneau can be said to have prepared the way for many current concerns within environmental thought: the tension between liberalism and ecologism in green political theory; the wider question of the compatibility of ecological imperatives with supposedly foundational freedoms under capitalism; the discussions over how to balance existing democratic structures with environmental goals; the tensions between radical and reformist strategies within green movements; the controversy over the core values of ecological politics in a world transformed by climate change and peak everything; and the proper attitude of environmental movements to institutional science. This ground-breaking work should be front and centre of the debates that he anticipated, while giving a timely perspective on the interconnected questions of nature and human freedom.
This first English translation of a work by Bernard Charbonneau provides not only a vivid account of environmental philosophy, but an introduction to this important author's thought.
Contents
Introduction by Piers H.G. Stephens
Foreword by Daniel Cérézuelle
Author's Foreword: The Heart of the Subject
Part I SEEDS: The Origins of the Ecological Rebellion
1. Origins
Prehistory of the Ecological Movement
A Great Silence
2. Ecology Year 01
Where the thesis, i.e. science and America, generates its own antithesis
The Green Light in France
3. The Various Constellations of the Ecological Nebula
At the Center and on the Margins of the Maelstrom
Where Nature switches from Right to Left
Communal Microcosms and Silent Majority
Part II ROOTS: Foundations of the Ecological Movement
4. Nature or freedom?
Nature
Freedom
The Contradiction Between Nature and Freedom
5. Nature and Freedom
Nature and Man United in the Human Environment: Town and Country
Nature and Freedom United in the Existence of Each Human Being
Nature and Freedom Associated in History
6. Nature and Christianity
The Rupture of Creation
Incarnation
Christianity and the Ecological Movement
Part III DISEASES AND POISONS: Contradictions and Shortcomings of the Ecological Nebula
7. Nature, Freedom and the Ecological Movement
The Temptation of Naturist Fundamentalism
A Critique of Ecologism
The Libertarian Temptation
A Critique of the Ecological Movement's Anarchistic and Non-Violent Strand
Beyond the Ecological Right and Left
8. A Fruit Still Green
Ecology without a Doctrine
Weak Points of Ecological Thinking
Shortcomings in Economic and Especially Social Reflection
9. Recycling
Creation or Recyclable Social By-Product?
Recycling Through Fashion and Fashionistas
Recycling Through Techno-Structure
Recycling Through Spectacle
10. Recycling Through Politicization-Depoliticization
From Political Commitment to Withdrawal from Politics
Recycling Through Depoliticization
Recycling Through Politicization
Part IV: FRUITS: Sketch of an Ecological Politics
11. Topical Utopia
Ecological Conversion
A Mediation Between Opposites
A Revolution for That Which Exists
12. The Ecological Community
The Personal Basis
Language and Ecological Reason
Ecological Society and Meetings
The Ecological Order
13. Ecological Politics
Ecology and Power
Elements of Ecological Tactics in Politics
A Non-Economist Economic Policy
Self-Management and Ecological Self-Sufficiency
Agricultural Policy and the Dis-Organization of Leisure
Envoi - Concluding Words
Index
