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The Green Light - A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement (Paperback)
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The Green Light - A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement (Paperback)
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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.
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