Environmentalism and fear of progress
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Environmentalism and fear of progress
This text was written in the context of Greenpeace's opposition to the Iter project.
"Innovation is inherently unpredictable. It requires risk-taking in order to obtain results which, at the beginning, are quite uncertain. Strangely, environmentalists have no problem in assuming a share of uncertainty by promoting energies renewables After all, their credibility also depends on uncertain technological breakthroughs, especially in the storage of electricity.
I note, however, that, for environmentalists, the bet in favor of intermittent and voracious energies in terms of space is more respectable than that in favor of unlimited energy. We cannot understand this dissonance if we do not relate it to the hatred of technical modernity which characterizes the environmental movement since its emergence in the second half of the twentieth century. Political ecology is defined less by a concern for the environment (which has always accompanied civilizations) than by the attitude towards the solutions that we should mobilize.
For a long time, mankind has placed its confidence, even, one might say, its faith, in the progress of the arts, sciences and techniques. For environmentalists, who are part of a Rousseauist lineage, technical progress is a sin. Fact, many environmentalists admit the possibility that innovation can ensure the sustainability of industrial civilization. In 1975, environmentalist Paul Ehrlich wrote that giving humanity unlimited energy would be morally irresponsible. Saving innovation is no longer relegated to the rank of inaccessible chimeras. She is feared. Behind the fear of progress hides the hatred of the bourgeois condition, of the Cartesian figure of the man master and owner of nature, and in fine, the old anti-capitalist resentment which denies humanity the right to perpetually improve its comfort and prosperity."
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Re: Ecologism and fear of progress
More vile propaganda from the guy who is on the far right of the extreme right of Marine Le Pen ... If moderation considers that his forum is a forum for this kind of madman, that she continues to accept this kind of nauseating, lying, caricatural and only polemical text.
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GuyGadeboisLeRetour wrote:More vile propaganda from the guy who is on the far right of the far right of Marine Le Pen ...
Another defamatory dung by GuyGadebois, clearly incapable of intelligible arguments, against a young journalist member of the European students for Liberty and Young Voice network.
I remind you that what is to be discussed is not the dung of Gadebois, but the text of this journalist:
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"Innovation is inherently unpredictable. It requires risk-taking in order to obtain results which, at the beginning, are quite uncertain. Strangely, environmentalists have no problem in assuming a share of uncertainty by promoting energies renewables After all, their credibility also depends on uncertain technological breakthroughs, especially in the storage of electricity.
I note, however, that, for environmentalists, the bet in favor of intermittent and voracious energies in terms of space is more respectable than that in favor of unlimited energy. We cannot understand this dissonance if we do not relate it to the hatred of technical modernity which characterizes the environmental movement since its emergence in the second half of the twentieth century. Political ecology is defined less by a concern for the environment (which has always accompanied civilizations) than by the attitude towards the solutions that we should mobilize.
For a long time, mankind has placed its confidence, even, one might say, its faith, in the progress of the arts, sciences and techniques. For environmentalists, who are part of a Rousseauist lineage, technical progress is a sin. Fact, many environmentalists admit the possibility that innovation can ensure the sustainability of industrial civilization. In 1975, environmentalist Paul Ehrlich wrote that giving humanity unlimited energy would be morally irresponsible. Saving innovation is no longer relegated to the rank of inaccessible chimeras. She is feared. Behind the fear of progress hides the hatred of the bourgeois condition, of the Cartesian figure of the man master and owner of nature, and in fine, the old anti-capitalist resentment which denies humanity the right to perpetually improve its comfort and prosperity."
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Ferghane Azihari is a researcher for the Institute for Economic and Fiscal Research (Iref) and general delegate of the Free Academy of Human Sciences (ALSH): So don't give a damn about what he can say about ITER, he is not competent.
Alexis Quentin is Seconded Union at CFE Energies: Idem.
Two young assholes paid to polish the CEA pumps ...
Alexis Quentin is Seconded Union at CFE Energies: Idem.
Two young assholes paid to polish the CEA pumps ...
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yes, but funeral directors like in Fukushima or Tchernobyl, Mururoa, the Algerian desert with their very toxic mushrooms.Two young assholes paid to polish the CEA pumps ...
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You ramble on HauptFürhrer Tryphon ... this subject is publicized I lock
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