Globing the Earth: The New Eco-logics of Nature

Concerted clamors ring in the corridors of our planet: “Nature is dying, and with it, life on earth. Humans! Your end is approaching.” Are we then battling the postendist phase of nature? Is living with/in nature all about encountering the spectre of the “unborn”—those who will come after us and who in some sense now must command the unfolding of present politics and society? How are we, in the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “responsible for our rose”? (Anderson 1987: vii) Are we entering a new eco-logics of nature? And how is a Green politics formed that may, in the process, globe the earth?