ABSTRACT
Political ecology strives to interweave ecological concerns and political action while rethinking socioeconomic organization. The life reform movement intended to reform the entire social body in the name of a 'natural' order. The movement's vocation is to promote what some consider 'another modernity', based on the refusal of duality and an effort to create harmony, a key value for all Lebensreform-related thought. The development of political ecology also remains closely linked to what Hans Jonas called the 'heuristics of fear' in his book The Imperative of Responsibility, which he believed allows us to better anticipate and know the threat, while pointing us towards a new environmental ethic in the making. The first era of ecologism, centred in the German-speaking world, related to the development of alternative philosophical and political thoughts, but also to individual and social practices concerned with environmental protection.
