Ecological disorders

Environmental disorders are generally seen as a consequence of civilization-specific activities, and this is the result of an inevitable evolution of culture.

We tend to place our Western culture at the top of all cultures, to conceive it as a sort of fulfilment of the potentialities of human nature. On the contrary, human ecogenetics raises the question of a psychopathological origin of this form of progress. Some mental disorders, whose contours have yet to be precisely defined, are the cause of environmental disorders.

Environmental disorders then appear as symptoms of the psychic disorders peculiar to civilized and can serve as clues to search for the exact content of these disorders. Whenever there is disorder in man’s environment, it is a question of looking for the psychological singularities that have initiated and continue to make us dependants on it. Then to decide between either a genetic determinism that would make us inevitably dependants on such singularity, or a cultural determinism that would be the root cause.

Thus is a path of research bringing together ecology, biology and psychology, and questioning all our values – or our cultural tares – in view of the environmental damage we are the unfortunate artisans of…