“Some things are already lost. » There is little chance that you will ever read this slogan on the banner of an ecological demonstration. And yet, this seemingly defeatist sentence is the heart of Corine Pelluchon’s latest essay. She speaks of the radically new look that this philosopher, one of the most important of the decade, takes on the malaise caused by environmental degradation and the awareness of the terrible fate that we humans inflict on animals. .
This eco-anxiety, this solastalgia, this bitter anti-speciesism which strikes more and more Westerners, panics the psychologists and sociologists of youth (three quarters of Earthlings aged 16 to 25 judge the future ” scary “according to a survey by Lancet Planetary Health), but had not, until now, given rise to very strong philosophical reflection. It is now done. The philosopher wrote her essay “Hope or crossing the impossible” for all the saddened people she met, especially in the ranks of the Extinction Rebellion activist groups.
At first glance, repeating to them that “some things are already lost” doesn’t sound wildly therapeutic. Better to cheer them up, call them to action. But she has better to offer them than feelgood philosophy: of“hope”. This term, steeped in religiosity, “is the opposite of hope. Hope is an illusion that hides dreams of greatness, conquest, domination.no
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