To give a completely different example, the strengthening of an ‘ecological’ vision of the world has certainly been no less natural in the Buddhist tradition, which does not place man at the heart of a divine project, but more strongly emphasises the links with other living beings and nature as a whole (esho funi, the non-duality of life and its environment, ‘two but not two’).34 Each in their own language, religions put the emphasis above all on a personal ‘conversion’35 or ‘enlightenment’.36 As I said, widespread awareness is essential; society as a whole will not change its course if the tiller of its people does not move.
Yet this is not enough. For the individual approach to trigger incisive collective action, collective tools are required. There are two main pathways: politics and economics. It is not my place to talk about the former.