Prof. Dr. Eric Pommier, a research member of the International Center for the Study of Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), has recently published the book La démocratie environnementale. Préserver notre part de nature (2022). In this book, Prof. Dr. Pommier argues the need to defend a principle of responsibility towards future generations, life, and the Earth, in the face of the systemic threats of our time. However, it is not evident that a political regime is capable of embodying such an ethical principle.

Some of the questions raised by the author in this work are: How can we represent the interests of future generations if they have not yet been born, how to defend the interests of the living and the Earth since they are not subjects of law, what to think of a regime that claims to defend such interests to the detriment of the rights of classical subjects, i.e. contemporary men? Far from concluding that this new ethical requirement is only an unattainable utopia, Prof. Dr. Éric Pommier proposes in this book the ways of reconciliation through the concept of environmental democracy.