Pierre Charbonnier: "The response to global warming has been so slow that the enemy will now always be there"

The philosopher Pierre Charbonnier, author of "The Climate Coalition", talks in an interview with "Le Monde" about the evolution of his thinking on climate change. According to him, after the heat waves that marked the summer, the idea that global warming is a distant horizon to be anticipated is now outdated.

This reality, the researcher explains, forces him to change his philosophical thinking on the climate issue. Climate change is no longer, according to him, a future phenomenon against which we must prepare, but an already established reality with which we must now constantly deal with it.

Philosophical thinking that adapts to the climate emergency

This evolution in Pierre Charbonnier's analysis reflects a broader questioning, shared by many researchers in the social sciences and philosophy, on how to think about public and individual action in the face of a climate crisis whose effects are already manifesting themselves concretely, rather than in a purely anticipated way.

The author of "The Climate Coalition" had already devoted part of his work to the articulation between climate issues and social and political power relations. This new stage of his reflection is a continuation of this work, while drawing the consequences of recent extreme climatic episodes.

The precise details of the proposals or avenues mentioned by the philosopher to adapt action to this new situation have not been specified beyond this general framework.