In an opinion piece published today in the French newspaper Les Echos, 300 stakeholders from the world of impact and economics, brought together by ChangeNOW, call for overcoming divisions and positioning ecology and planetary boundaries as fundamental principles upon which society must build and organize itself, for a sustainable future.
In a world that pushes us to polarize, divide, and threaten the very existence of our democracies, this paper calls for unity around 2 central points: ecology and humanity. It is time to put ecology at the center of all actions and decisions!
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Opinion | Ecology: overcoming divisions for a sustainable future

On the occasion of the ChangeNOW conference, from March 25 to 27, 300 players from the impact and economic worlds are calling for ecology to be placed at the heart of projects for a shared future, as 50% of the world's population is called to the polls in 2024.

Gathered at the initiative of ChangeNOW, more than 300 French and international players from the impact and economic worlds are calling on us to overcome divisions and place ecology and planetary limits as fundamental principles on which society must build and organize itself, for a sustainable and more humane future.

In a constantly changing world, where challenges are multiplying and becoming more complex, ecology is often perceived as an additional constraint, a moral luxury reserved for certain people or for times of prosperity. Yet not only is this vision reductive, it is also dangerous. It artificially contrasts ecology with other fields such as agriculture, industry and economics. As if protecting our environment meant sacrificing everything else.

Common home
Ecology, from the Greek "oikos" (house) and "logos" (science), is none other than the science of our common home, the framework within which all life on Earth is governed. It is intrinsic to every aspect of our existence: eating, moving, dressing, producing - everything is an ecological act because we always operate within the limits of our world.

Ecology therefore concerns everything and concerns us all. It affects every aspect of our daily lives, impacting our shared existence and our economic system. In this sense, ecology is profoundly political.
With more than 50% of the world's population set to vote in 2024, environmental issues must be neither eclipsed nor instrumentalized. Instead of using ecology to create divisions and disagreements, we need to realize that it is the common ground on which we collectively depend.

Hors-sol
To ignore ecological principles is to run the risk of becoming "off-ground", disconnected from the physical realities that frame our existence, and widening the social divide linked to the consequences of climate change. Science teaches us that every action has its effects. Ecology applies this principle to living organisms and our interaction with them.

It is therefore imperative to adopt planetary limits as a guide to our development. Not as a brake, but as a necessity for building a sustainable, fairer future that leaves no one behind.

Concrete solutions
It is in this spirit that we, entrepreneurs, managers, investors, NGO members, activists, experts, artists, athletes and citizens from all walks of life, will gather in numbers at ChangeNOW [in association with Les Echos-Le Parisien, NDLR], from March 25 to 27, in Paris, around concrete solutions, to transcend the sterile confrontation between ecology and progress and demonstrate a shared commitment to building a sustainable and more humane world.