[Opinion] Conservative, Environmentalist? A Historical Confusion

OPINION. The philosopher Olivier Massin recently defended in these columns the thesis that ecologists and conservatives share a common desire for preservation. But preserve what?, reacts the historian Grégoire Gonin, who points out the difference between political ecology and bourgeois environmentalismAffirming, as does Olivier Massin (LT of 05.05.2025), that ecology draws from the same ideological roots as liberal conservatism amounts to misund…