You know a friend from China
recently told me,
something pretty terrifying,
namely that 
the large majority of Chinese geologists...
... know, but it's an information which the
Chinese authority's trying to keep secret,
that the big earthquake which hit central China,
about I think it was
two or three years ago,
that it was the first man-made earthquake.
Why? Because, the idea is that, 
this gigantic new artificial lakes
which are made by the big dams
are precisely above the fault lines beneath the crust of earth
which determine and trigger the earthquakes.
So isn't this something pretty terrifying?
Not our impotence.
But our almost (our, of humanity)
omnipotence
in the sense that
we can even cause earthquakes
but we don't know the scope of 
our omnipotence.
which is why some ecologists 
have of it beautiful idea.
which is, I think, crucially 
if we have to confront properly
the ongoing ecological crisis that
Today, we are
you know, how you illuminate the geological eras,
Pleistocene, 
and so on and so on,
we are now on the terrace of a new era
we call it Anthropocene
where humanity is no longer just
one among the living species
but it literally 
is becoming a geological factor.
Here I think,
we come to the next crucial conclusion
maybe, paradoxically,
we should accept that
nature doesn't exist.
Not subjectivism, not in any crazy subject
that we strate "there is no nature"
we are just constructing nature
through our spirit or whatever.
but in the sense that
the image of nature that
we spontaneously accept
nature as a balanced,
harmonized circulation
which is then destroyed through 
excessive human agency
That nature doesn't exist!
Nature is in itself 
a series of megacatastrophies
Nature is crazy
Things go wrong all the time in nature.
Just think about oil.
Oil -- our main energy source
can we even imagine
what kind of gigantic 
ecological catastrophie
have to have happened 
millions of years ago
so that we have oil
This is nature.
What we should do?
The first thing I claim is that
we should accept
our full alienation from nature.
The problem is not science and technology
They may be part of the problem
in the sense that
they are causing problems.
But at the same time,
they are the only solution.
The solution is not to feed more
organic with mother earth,
to go to the forest and so on.
We are already within technology.
So we should remain open, 
and basically work
Work? How?
Also with much stronger social discipline.
I'm not talking about state terror
about social discipline.
I think that ... and for me it's not even
a sad lesson ...
that maybe one of the consequences of
ecological crisis will be that...
this, basically, American way of life ...
vision of free-spending,
this individualist liberty, 
consumption and so on
We will have to get out of this
and invent a new mode of living together
