First causes

**Why talk about root causes? **

Because the aim of human ecogenetics is not to seek the immediate causes of human damage to the environment.
These causes are now well known: deforestation, monocultures, pesticides, synthetic chemistry, dioxin, PCBs, CFC, greenhouse gas emissions, overpopulation, waste, waste in nature, landfills, etc. We must do something other than promote environmental protection measures.
The transition from fossil to renewable energies, from agrochemistry to organic cultivation, from polluting leaching to ecological leaching, and other ongoing efforts are essential and need to be supported. But they don’t solve the bottom line. They do not go back to the root causes of consumerist drift and will only involve more or less idealistic minorities. They will certainly not avoid the contamination of emerging countries by the factors responsible for our own sinking.

The objective here is to highlight the fundamental mechanisms that have led to the current ecological and sociological impasse. We must treat the evil at the source. Only the knowledge of these mechanisms will ensure the general awareness that will enable us to emerge from the vicious circle in which we have engaged.

Let us ask ourselves the right questions: why have human behaviors been organized for centuries in such a way that they end up destroying the planet, on which our own existence depends? Is the impasse inevitable, intrinsically linked to the human condition? Do the environmental damage and societal problems we experience go back to the same causes? And what about the diseases of civilization?

These questions refer to a large number of possible, known or unknown causes. These subreptitiously led behaviors to develop dependencies that became part of ourselves (or what we believe to be). All kinds of harmful habits have been able to simmer in our traditions, dressed in justifications and conditionings that have eventually incorporated them into the norm. Nothing is more difficult than to question the norms that lock minds and tranquillize consciences.

The challenge of human ecogenetics is precisely to overcome false certainty, prejudice, inertia and even ideological biases that are too often hidden by scientific labels. It is at this price that we can identify the root causes of the destruction processes that threaten the planet and its inhabitants.