possible to observe the unfolding human attack on nature with horror, be determined to do whatever you can to stop it, and at the same time know that much of it cannot be stopped, whatever you do? Is it possible to see the future as dark and darkening further;

one is happy about this. No one thinks this is the right way to live. But we don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to feel. And so, a part of us falls silent. We play tricks on our soul. We slide into a strange double life, “caught,” says eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, (see page 187) “between a sense of impending apocalypse and the fear of acknowl

On continue de faire comme s’il suffisait de mettre en mouvement des données scientifiques, du haut vers le bas, des experts vers les incultes. On agite les synthèses du GIEC et on alerte : Vite, il ne nous reste que trois ans pour agir ! C’est vague. L’écologie ne défend pas forcément les enjeux d’égale dignité humaine ; elle peut être fasciste, r

Any news I might bring has already been brought. Thousands of scientific papers. Millions of newspaper column inches. Anyone who cares to pay attention already knows that we’ve broken Nature, and the world we know will soon end. This park, for one, is done for. This city I love, home to almost nine million, and one of humankind’s most extraordinary