Marc Carl
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Marc Carl (born 1949) is a French ecologist and humanist.
Historical pioneer of humanist ecology, main founder of the international network of humanist ecology Gaia Mater (the mother Earth), and representative of this organization under permanent consultative status in the Economic and Social Council of the UNO, Marc CARL deeply contributed to the expression of a new humanism. Although he defines himself lowly as a simple "humanist entrepreneur" and although he refuses any artificial media coverage, his incentive contribution was decisive for the international movement of evolutive humanism.
Considering his course of alumna of the Centre of Higher Industrial Education of Ile de France, then of Paris Dauphine University (In-depth Corporate Management), his humanist philosophical vocation can seem atypical. But thanks to it, as an international expert in the domains of energy, water, and recycling of industrial waste, and manager in charge for inter-NGO operations of international solidarity, he knew how to prove in a credible way the socio-economic synergies which feed modern humanism.
On one hand, he got involved in the service of human being, by favouring the way of association, worker management, sharing, the one which puts work before the capital. Practitioner, then teacher, of martial arts, he was also particularly interested in the control of conflictual behaviours, publishing two works in this domain, free boxing and Savate & Chausson (Ed. Chiron, Paris, on 1976). For exemplary, some of his publications were distributed with royalties transferred to associations of public interest.
On the other hand, since 1979, he created in France one of the first working cooperative engaged in the development of nonpolluting energies (solar, hydrogen), and in the treatment of water and waste. He improved the stocking of hydrogen on metallic hydrides, and he is renowned also for his works on the physicochemical processes of recycling, crowned by significant patents followed by many industrial applications. Solidarity was of benefit there, since several patents of the industrial applications resulting from his works were free transmitted in structures of united economy.
He finally showed the principles of humanist ecology on a large scale, by organizing and directing consortia and programs of international cooperation. In the actions which he directed in NGO, he was particularly in charge of the help to Central and Saharan Africa, following in that the tracks of his father, Louis Carl, French ethnologist (1924-1980), explorer specialist in African civilizations, who had discovered and deciphered the prehistoric frescoes of Hoggar and Tibesti. In the most known works of Louis Carl, Tefedest (Arthaud, Paris-1953), The City of Salt (Julliard, Paris-1954), and Mountains in the Desert (Doubleday and Co, New York, 1954), the source of the naturalist inspiration of the son may be found.
But Marc Carl went farther. He linked environmental humanism to a philosophy of evolution. In his comprehension, the clever living being can change whole or part of the universal evolution. And hereafter the human evolution depending more on his culture than on natural selection, it must follow a permanent process of adaptation to the evolutive environment, where its thought must remain as free as possible, and where all mankind must necessarily unite to prevent being self-destroyed, sharing its means efficiently. Marc Carl wanted to show notably that human spirit can progress better accepting the possibility of error and the possibility of correcting it permanently.
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The main books of Marc Carl relating to humanist ecology :
