In this particular article Latour discusses James Lovelock's book 'The Revenge
of Gaia'. (The Gaia hypothisis "proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet.")-Wikepedia Latour does not approve that Lovelock did not talk about the fundementals of human revolution agaisnt the Gaia. He believes many important aspects about our near future was left out by Lovelock; as Lovelock says 2050 will be the end of civilization which Latour abrutly states that it is not possible that it can happen that fast.
We must be ecologically and socially concered. There is a fast dissapearence of “nature” & “society” as Latour suggests in his text. He points out "I have proposed to say that all matters of fact have become matters of concern." In other words we must be the change to our own mishaps. It is up to earthlings as he refers to us, to be the change and not to wait for the change to just come to us.
This text seems in a way, frustrated and loud in a way to be heard. Latour mentions near the end "Who are you really, Earthlings, to believe that you are the ones adding relations by the
sheer symbolic order of your mind, by the projective power of your brain, by the sheer
intensity of your social schemes, to a world entirely devoid of meaning, of relations, of
connections?!" Thus another way to tell humans to wake up.. and smell the coffee!
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