I remember, as a child, walking on glaciers that are now gone, and fishing in rivers that have turned into streams.
I remember boredom, patience to receive a book, arguments while reading a road map, aimless walks.
I remember sincere friendly exchanges, shy and courteous flirting, simple laughter, love letters.
I remember being present in the moment. Being there. Without anything more.
On my tiny human scale, I observe the world becoming more and more rushed, individualistic, divided, virtual, brutal. Exhausting.
I contemplate the beauty of a landscape or listen to a bird's song, I eat a fruit, drink from the tap, and a thought crosses my mind: What will our children know?
I pay attention, I sort my waste, I try to do my part... but deep down, I know it won't be enough.
I educate myself, read the IPCC reports shouting humanity's responsibility...
And then nothing.
Inaction.
The quiet violence of a world that dreams of continuing as if nothing was happening.
I too would have liked to be able to continue.
We are heirs to a promise: the promise of increasing comfort and limitless progress.
But that promise no longer holds.
Our planet can no longer hold.
The climate is spiraling out of control.
The forests are burning.
Species are going extinct.
Our Earth is suffocating.
We have known for at least 50 years.
The facts are there, massive, documented, undeniable.
The planetary boundaries have been crossed.
Life is collapsing.
And yet... nothing really changes.
Or rather, yes: everything keeps getting worse...
A fable. A PR operation.
Replacing thermal cars with electric SUVs will save nothing but delay the bankruptcy of a few industrialists.
Solar panels and wind turbines only add to the previous energy sources to allow even more consumption.
Building "green" data centers to train artificial intelligence will only accelerate the mad race and the reckless extractivism.
We are not replacing anything. We are accumulating.
It's the whole model that needs to be reconsidered.
A contradiction in terms.
There can be no infinite growth in a world with finite resources.
Everything we consume requires raw materials and energy, most of which are non-recyclable/non-renewable.
Growth and pollution are strictly linked.
Every point of GDP is another point for emissions, artificialization, and destruction.
The dream of the cornucopians.
The main tool for the rebound effect.
Technology is not neutral: it serves capital.
It consumes, extracts, pollutes.
At best, it displaces problems, but never solves them at the root.
It takes us away from reality, from life, from nature.
We need to revisit the source of the problem: our needs. Our way of life.
Their purpose is growth. To make their capital grow.
They would rather see life collapse than their portfolios.
They will not invent the post-capitalist model on their own.
Prisoners of lobbies, polls, elections, short-termism.
No liberal democracy has ever voted for voluntary sobriety.
Leaders hesitate, will continue to hesitate, until it's too late – because it's already too late.
90% of them are owned by those who have an interest in nothing changing.
They manufacture consent for inaction.
They focus on consequences, purchasing power, tensions, rather than reflecting on the causes.
Hooked on comfort, stunned, anesthetized, isolated. Probably scared.
The majority that is gradually turning towards protectionism, nationalism.
We will not awaken them with reasonable calls.
A shock is needed.
We no longer have illusions.
The system will not reform itself.
We can't wait any longer.
Those who caused the problem will never be the solution.
We obviously don't want to harm anyone or put anyone in danger.
We target the moral entities that are the main actors of this destruction.
We take on our civic responsibility through ecological hacktivism. "Hack, baby hack," we would say!
We refuse to remain spectators.
Not out of hatred, but out of love.
Love for the Earth, for life, for our children, for true freedom: the freedom to still breathe, drink, cultivate, walk in a forest.
We know that our actions will be harshly judged.
The law protects the system far more than our environment and our health.
The executive ensures order, and the established order is threatened – rightfully so. Repression is intensifying everywhere, even against the fundamental rights of the UN.
But legality is not justice.
Many will condemn our actions, but we hope they will question the real violence – the one done to a few computer systems or the one done to our planet and our future.
We act with conscience and responsibility.
We act in the shadows, not out of cowardice (even though we risk severe sanctions!), but so that we can continue to fight for as long as we can.
We share values of respect, listening, humility, love.
We act for the common good.
We call on all those who feel that something is wrong to take the step.
To disobey.
To rise up.
To sabotage what destroys our future.
Yes, we must resist, but also build.
Build lightweight habitats, low-tech tools, resilient communities, havens of peace.
Create new stories full of hope, new visions for the future.
These initiatives are not opposed to the fight, they are part of it, and we encourage them!
We must unite and act together.
But building the alternative will not be enough.
We will also need to resist in a capitalist system that will not withdraw on its own.
We act for the Crepuscule of an ecocidal, inequitable, selfish era.
And to see a livable, just, and solidaristic world emerge tomorrow.
Our hope: to make way for a citizen assembly that, relying on the expertise of scientists, lawyers, sociologists, and other experts, would define a new constitution, a new system, and ultimately transform our way of being in the world.
We will not retreat.
And we will not be the last.
