"Vive la planète !"
A few tweets written by Bruno Latour, after the final agreement of the COP21 in Paris (see the excerpt at 11 min 35 sec in the video below).
Hollande at COP: ''vive l'ONU! vive la Planète! vive la France!". First time planet is saluted as a power with some authority over others.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Even Clive Hamilton in spite of what he said in his book on Requiem for the species after Paris COP is shifting from doomsday mood to hope.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Amazing to hear at COP 195 countries deferring in some new way to the hidden presence of another power: let's call it G, if not Gè or Gaia.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Nothing is solved but a least a new baseline for gaiapolitics is given by the odd salutation 'vive la planet!' which is not the globe of old
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Nobody before yesterday could salute by saying 'vive le globe' because the globe is not a political sovereign, but it's different with Gè.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Paris COP shifts attention to what the AIME project called Gaia by changing the meaning of the G word: from Globe to Gaia. A crucial move.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015For too long politics has traveled in between local soil and global horizon, now there is a third attractor, G, which is neither of them.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015You were reactionary if you looked back at soil, progressive if your looked toward the globe. But how to name those who now respond to Gè?
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015The historical dimension of the Paris COP is not the agreement, it's much too weak, it's the direction taken by delegates to shift loyalties
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Before a global agreement would have meant humans agreeing together, not bowing to an authority overlapping theirs 'vive la planete!' Is new
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015Since diplomacy is at the heart of AIME please forgive the AIME team for being immensely proud of the diplomatic achievements of France.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 Décembre 2015