It’s climate rage, my student body is on strike, we’re trying to make noise. It is no longer just for the cause of the younger generations, but for all those of today and throughout the world. Let’s talk about the union of nature and human history, this romantic conception perverted by the idea of “living better”.
Human history is written by nature. The victories of some may be largely due to environmental conditions. The failures of Napoleon and Hitler in Russia are proof of the relationship between history and nature. Even here, we can think of the Americans’ attempted invasion of Quebec, which failed thanks to our winter. These are examples of how climate impacts our world as we know it. Now we are witnessing a tumultuous divorce between these protagonists. Humans change the course of biological history thinking that it will not change their own. We are already seeing the consequences: migrations due to natural disasters and climate change are increasing. Many find themselves chased from their homes, dying of thirst and hunger. Human history is turned upside down.
We are now changing biological period. The Holocene, our benefactor, our creator, our era, no longer exists for many scientists. We are now entering a new era: the Anthropocene. We have changed the course of the natural history of our planet by wanting to maintain our comfort in our small part of the globe.
I then sit in a park, I imagine the vegetation before Europeans came to live in Quebec. I see lush splendors, a growing and respected nature. The caregiver of Aboriginal people established for centuries. They understand the importance of this marriage and the need to preserve it. We must give them more space, listen to them and take example. We may then be able to save this union which has been seriously damaged by our thirst for power, wealth and grandeur.
Demonstrations and strikes make noise, they attract attention. They are necessary and allow us to hold out the microphone to those who have ideas. We must give voice to those who understood the resonance between nature and humans, to those who knew how to listen to the trees that knew how to speak, to those whom we have cowardly excluded and persecuted, to the Indigenous people. It is in the interest of our fight for climate and human rights. It is the duty of humans towards nature.