Analysis and article written in collaboration with Mathilde Debenes, founder of Planet Wake Me Up.

At the beginning of the week, you worked on the future of company values and on the future of health system.

Today, you have reflected on a subject of paramount importance, at the heart of the historical challenges that face us:

Ecology, the Planet and the Living.

The history of environmentalist thought is inseparable from major human catastrophes. In the 20th century, Hiroshima represented an awareness of the finiteness of Man.

The COVID-19 crisis that we are experiencing probably represents a electroshock of the same order.

24 people took part in today's survey. Thanks to them.
Here are the main lessons.

1. What is good in all of this

A crisis is always one moment at a time painful and fruitful. It carries within it the seeds of a new world.

Without denying the seriousness of the situation, you highlighted several positive aspects:

• We are slowing down
• We produce and consume less
• We pollute less
• Nature seems to be regenerating

As a form of collective detox, of imposed silence, of renewed breathing.

You also welcome the shock that this crisis represents, which would make change happen. unavoidable.

In my humble opinion, let's not claim victory too quickly. Let's stay mobilized.

Necessary reminder: this reflection is easier when you are comfortable than when you live in precariousness. Let's not forget it.

2. With an ecological magic wand

If you were given full ecological powers, you would mainly act on:

• La resettlement
• Alternatives to transport
• Tree planting
• The reduction of globalized dependencies

But you would also seek to inspiring change with others.

Several of you mention:

• A bigger one social justice between North and South
• The establishment of a Universal income

And this bold proposal:

Establish a lockdown for one week per year to let the planet rest and reconnect with itself.

3. What everyone can do personally

With reference to the image of hummingbird dear to Pierre Rabhi, everyone can and should do their part.

You mention:

• The Care
• New ways of consuming, better and more local
• The return of the knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills

A lexical field returns with force: that of Life.

Two visions of ecology

There are two main families in ecological thought:

The anthropocentric approach

She criticizes living conditions reserved for humans, pollution, negative externalities.
Reference: Hans Jonas.

The biocentric approach

She advocates for a symmetry of rights between humans and other living species.
Reference: Arne Naess, deep ecology.

In your answers, we mainly find an anthropocentric criticism.
This is understandable in a context where we feel threatened as a species.

And tomorrow?

New ways of working?
Solidarity?
Social equity?
New forms of management?

The discussion continues.

Take care of yourself, the ones you love, and the planet.