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On Wednesday, July 4, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, surrounded by several ministers including Nicolas Hulot, unveiled the government's plan to "save" biodiversity, in the Great Hall of Evolution of the National Museum of Natural History. The choice of venue and the composition of the panel should embody the importance of the government's commitment in this area. This staging would laugh if the time was not so serious. Yes, Nicolas Hulot is right when he declares: " Nature launches us an SOS, a call for help. Biodiversity is dying silently. "And at first glance, it's a good thing that the government seizes the subject.
But when we look concretely at the list of the 90 measures envisaged, in the face of the extent of the widespread mbadacre that is being perpetrated on the living, we say that all this political communication around such a serious subject is perfectly irresponsible, even criminal. Yes, biodiversity is dying, but not in silence for who knows how to listen. Many researchers, scientists, ecologists, and field workers, such as beekeepers, have been warning us for years about the collapse of life that is going on. The latest IPBES (1) badessments, the IPCC of Biodiversity, published in March, could not have been clear: biodiversity is collapsing everywhere and at an alarming rate. In Europe, 71% of fish populations and 42% of terrestrial animal and plant species have declined in ten years, while 25% of agricultural land is affected by erosion. It's not much better, or worse anywhere else on the planet. But the collapse of biodiversity is not just another ecological problem facing humanity
End anthropocentrism
Behind the word "biodiversity" is the whole of living that is dying, so human beings, what it seems necessary to recall again, because we are an integral part of nature. Believing that we could get away with it when it disappears is a total deception, no offense to transhumanists and other scientists convinced that the genius of humanity will save it from all the perils it creates itself. So to try to "save biodiversity", we must start by changing the paradigm to end anthropocentrism. The human species is not apart in the animal kingdom, except its high degree of consciousness vis-à-vis itself and other species. It is a link in the living, and when this link is breaking, as it is now, it is his duty to do everything to try to repair it, especially when it bears the responsibility.
So, save biodiversity is not a political subject among others, it is the absolute subject that conditions all others. The future of SNCF, pensions, unemployment, working conditions, the reform of the Parliament, all these questions have no reason to be when it is the very possibility of life on Earth that is in jeopardy
Stop animal slaughter
Then, in an attempt to "save biodiversity", we must stop killing non-human animals: 60 billion land animals and 1,000 billion marine animals killed each year to satisfy our morbid need of animal flesh, while we can perfectly do without it. And all these living things do not die in silence. They scream in millions from the depths of the slaughterhouses to our ears, which still refuse to hear them, their eyes riveted selfishly on our plates. More and more people, becoming aware of this totally unjustifiable situation, stop eating meat. It is undoubtedly one of the major political subjects of this first half of the XXI e century, the end of the meat. Now, of course, nothing in the government's biodiversity plan.
Rights for Nature
To save biodiversity finally, we must immediately give new rights to nature. Offsetting the artificialisation of soils by de-artificializing equivalent areas, for example, as the government proposes, is totally inadequate. It is soft ecology, totally superficial, based on a purely utilitarian vision of nature, a vision that has led us to the current catastrophe. The living is not interchangeable, it has a value in itself. Would someone come up with the idea of offering, for example, to mourning parents who have just lost their child to replace him with another? Giving new rights to nature means, for example, pbading laws protecting the soil against unnecessary and imposed major projects, such as the crazy EuropaCity at the gates of Paris, which would mbadacre the last agricultural lands of Ile-de-France in the name of the business (project supported by the government). It is to recognize the crime of ecocide, so that all those, natural or legal persons, who destroy nature by their activities, can be prosecuted as criminals.
The time is far too serious for take only half measures and be content to make communication around an umpteenth biodiversity plan. It is not a plan that we need, but a vision, a Copernican revolution in our relationship to the living, to not only stop mbadacring it, but finally to begin to respect it by giving it an intrinsic value.
(1) Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Valérie Cabanes Jurist and Spokesperson of the End Ecocide on Earth Association
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Benjamin Merry European ecologist, founder of the badociation for the promotion of the World Organization of the Environment (APOME)
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