A wind of concern is blowing after the disclosure of the latest budget of the Quebec government, and the specters of the deficit and the debt resurface in the alarmist remarks of certain commentators and analysts.
We seem, in an almost existential way, very concerned about the financial debts that affect most states in the world, and particularly ours. However, we should be concerned about another debt, this one more alarming, that is to say the one that we contract with nature through our extractivist economic model with little concern for the environment, as has long been denounced by the journalist and essayist Naomi Klein.
Indeed, nature also has its accounting logic: it holds assets and capital which constitute natural resources and the quality of its environment; but it also has a liability, human industrial and commercial activity with its deleterious consequences, which reduces the value of its wealth and, each year, we see that the pressure put by humans on planetary resources is more and more intense. and proves to be untenable in the long term, adding up arithmetically to the debt of our species towards nature, which will be difficult to repay.
It seems rather futile, after all, to worry about the rather intangible financial debt of a State that we will leave to our offspring when we do not even seriously consider our debt to nature, after all much more tangible, which will deteriorate inevitably the quality of life as well as the future of our descendants…
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