-The environment is everything around us. It is the set of natural
and artificial elements within which human life takes place. With
current ecological issues, the term environment is currently
tending to take on an increasingly global dimension.
In our time, the environment is perceived as a material to be
sculpted, a territory to be structured, to be managed. This
conception derives from a Promethean approach aimed at
asserting the domination of man over nature. Faced with the
discourse of an often naive and anti-humanist radical ecology,
the instrumental and Cartesian approach to the environment
seems natural, based on reason and totally adapted to the
economic, industrial, commercial and financial needs of our
time.
Introduction