Reciprocal Links

In an area as complex as the relationship between human behaviour and ecological disorders, it would be simplistic to take into account only the effects of the former on the latter. The behaviour of our ancestors, as well as our modern behaviors, can be influenced in a thousand ways by environmental factors.

In order for a research to be exhaustive, the influences of the environment must count more than the disruptive effects of an urbanised, noisy, polluted, concrete environment, as the traditional ecologists denounce them. Everything that surrounds the individual can have effet-pervers on his or her mental functioning and behaviour: social constraints, anxiety, stress, deprivation, too much ease, excessive idleness such as excessive work, inadequate nutrition, competition, harassment, repressive morality, deficient sexuality, too loose or too severe education, the list is endless.

More than that, it is necessary to take in the collimator the reciprocal effects between behavioral disorders and environmental disorders. A mental state disturbed by an external factor can lead to a heavy behavioural drift with consequences for the environment. Evaluations, motivations, decisions depend on the psycho-affective state of the protagonists. To the extent that this state is changed throughout a population, the very norms that underpin judgments and decisions are subject to shifts of which it is difficult to become aware, since all individuals are housed in the same sign.

We immediately see how things can evolve in the longer term: a change in psychic functioning can cause the community to make an inappropriate decision, it can impose certain changes to the environment, which in turn can influence the general psychic state, so that new inappropriate decisions will be taken and so on.

It is this type of vicious circle that human ecogenetics uses to denounce, by radiographing as objectively as possible the reciprocal relationships between behaviour harmful to the environment and the influences of the denatured environment on behaviour. Thus can be highlighted both the behavioral anomalies induced by civilization, with their increasingly effet-pervers on nature, as well as the harmful effects of a degraded nature, and of a culture that is more and more distant from natural laws…