Articles 2010

Émilie Gaillard travaille depuis vingt ans sur le droit des générations futures. Selon elle, ce concept juridique est un outil indispensable pour induire les changements de paradigmes nécessaires à la préservation de l’environnement et des populations sur le temps long.

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Pour Sylvain Boucherand et Charles Adrien Louis, climat, biodiversité et lutte contre la pauvreté ne peuvent plus être pensés séparement. Une profonde transformation économique globale s’impose à tous.

In the early 1970s, ecologist Barry Commoner wrote The Closing Circle, in which he discussed the rapid growth of industry and technology and their persistent effect on all forms of life. He suggested that we can reduce the negative effects by sensitizing, informing and educating ourselves about our connection to the natural world. Commoner summarized the basics of ecology into what he termed “laws of ecology.” Others have also used this idea to develop simple statements that help us understand and remember our connections to nature. Here are five laws of ecology:

Don't you stumble, sometimes, into something that seems to make a lot of sense, but you can't say exactly why? For a long time, I had in mind the idea that when things start going bad, they tend to go bad fast. We might call this tendency the "Seneca effect" or the "Seneca cliff," from Lucius Annaeus Seneca who wrote that "increases are of sluggish growth, but the way to ruin is rapid."