The "nice demagogic tendency reeducation camp"

Aragon advised to read everything, to package leaflets. Yegor Gran bed all its gas bills, advertisements supermarkets, leaflets, The Rough Guide 2008 Sustainable Tourism, the guidelines of the 'ARPP (advertising Regulatory Authority), the instructions for use of compact fluorescent bulbs , tests such as Switzerland or warms Ecology when women make, and even a forum where Liberation qu''il signed in June 2009 against the film Home by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. In this particular, he pulled a book, but it does not have to conclude that this material makes
The ecology downstairs from me a kind of journalistic essay or even a pamphlet. Although an anchor in a real and a present that we recognize all too well, the story in which the author takes the stage has a euphoric breath and freedom evocating Vialatte, Allais Voltaire.

This vitriolic comedy, which is also the story of a friendship disintegrates, the reins of the new dominant ideology: a spectacular environmentalism qu''insidieux concealing his hypocrisy and cynicism behind "a good incontinence intentions. " For in this new century, everyone s''affiche "green" or supporters of "sustainable development" (an oxymoron that Orwell would have made her honey): the worst polluters in the most voracious merchants from the temple through a string of '' useful idiots.

The "nice demagogic tendency reeducation camp"

With a cheerful ferocity Yegor Gran tackles gurus of this doxa (Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Nicolas Hulot, Al Gore ') and small green Khmers daily whose motivation is less than truly protect the environment than marrying fashion while forcing his neighbor to follow the trend. Sort waste, cycle, do not use plastic bags, reducing its "carbon footprint": brandies injunctions known by a "dynamic moralizing" wielding soft oppression and censorship that dare not speak its name.

The ecology downstairs from me exposes the contradictions, lies, the absurd, the "nice demagogic tendency reeducation camp" masking evil "the commercial bustle" of the iron hand of the market. You never s''était much fun to unravel the secrets of global warming and the quarrels of experts and ideologues that the pen of the author of NGOs! which revives, including through hilarious footnotes page, with sarcastic wit and lucidity of the late Philippe Muray.

Like him, Yegor Gran exposes the show both irresistibly funny and desperate cases involving complaints against the consequences. It is in the center, that will not forgive him his detractors. Under the catastrophism and the apocalyptic predictions of self-appointed defenders of the planet pierce the clean sweep of desire, nihilism, self-hatred. The "green itch" is "a way to recycle a form of revolutionary utopia" notes the writer relentlessly by bringing this pruritis with some totalitarian past.

We said that Gran had read everything or almost. The proof, he cites the brave Keynes retorting to a reporter who asked about the economic situation "in the long term": "in the long run we are all dead." So unequivocal judgment of the author Economic Consequences of the Peace that could be completed by a maxim of the author of peace political consequences, Jacques Bainville: "We must not forget that in all everything has always wrong. " Climate warming or not, hunting of 'drawn water or not, or no carbon footprint, it is feared that the story would end badly. Meanwhile, we can laugh with Yegor Gran. Starfish, s''il were needed, that his book published by POL was not printed on recycled paper. This did not prevent him from being "sustainable".

Christian Authier
Independent Opinion