The green light: a self-critique of the ecological movement

'The Green Light' 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 totalising 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 industrialisation became second nature and jeopardised 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.