Paris, the environment and the West Edgar Morin has long advocated a 'politics of civilisation', one that starts with the acknowledgement that if Western civilisation has produced a great deal that is positive, it has also generated evils that are assuming increasing importance worldwide. In contrast to the 'civilising role' French colonists believed they were fulfilling, Morin asks if his country and Europe generally could engage in a politics in which humans and our environment…
