The blog of Michael Cabon

The growing environmental concerns of our citizens confined to the sometimes radical (Read the article here on the ecology radical ). For some converts, often from new, this is the rigidity. "Do not do it, do not do that", "Turn out the light," "do not take the plane", "leave your car at home" ... so many orders that sound like a sermon in a church in half-empty . These enverdeurs play on the register of fear. Fear of what other, fear for the salvation of Gaia. Like the campaigns against tobacco, alcohol, these injunctions are aimed at the guilt of the person who is not in line of thinking green one. They call necessarily, eventually, by hiding or by being in a form of decay , why not?, without giving the individual benefit to be gained from rushing in that direction. The Neanderthals not polluted no. A few bones here and there. Next to nothing. A real green. The ecology could become the new ideology of the 21st century.

Playing on the register of the obligation and emotion, "think of your children," this speech could miss its goal a change in human habits in consumption and lifestyle. At least in Western countries. It causes an adverse reaction. This jem'enfoutisme of certain categories of people is just as worrying, "We'll find a solution." Here it is the selfishness and shortsightedness.

Climate change is being prepared, the concerns that drive us to action are a matter of urgency. Where we should reflect on the organization we want for our society, its goals, cultural, social, economic to measure effectiveness.

And if you handed a little reason in the greening of society, and a little less than commandments, to reflect a green company but one that did not exclude the other colors?

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