Until now, environmental issues have most often been presented from an anxiety-provoking, restrictive and guilt-inducing angle. Even if we have to recognise the virtue of sounding the alarm to raise awareness, we must also admit that few real, breakthrough, innovative and systemic solutions have been announced and therefore perceived. Often incantatory or confidential, or even experimental, the alternatives were therefore often pious hopes in the light of the old but tenacious streetlights of the 20th century. When the alarm signal is not connected to any fire station and therefore does not send any reinforcements or rescue teams, it is eventually not heard anymore. In another version, it is Peter and the environment. In this world aware of its limits without knowing any other system than the one that creates them, nobody wants to see problems without solutions. This situation then creates either a psychological denial, a hunt for scapegoats, or the fantasy of human genius.

But that was season one, the season of the why, the warning, the blinders, the pretence of being superior to nature, the stupidity of seeing nature as a constraint and a single reservoir for raw materials.

Biomimicry proposes the second season of environmental issues, the season of how, we change our angle of view, our actors and our perspectives, the sky is clearing, we are not looking over the wall, we are starting to equip the barracks. Nature is no longer a constraint but a solution, and if it is still a reservoir, it is a reservoir of inspiration and innovation. Nature is no longer reduced to the vision of a finite stock, but of an inexhaustible resource of genius. For if there is genius on this earth, it is surely more under our feet than in the mirror.

Nature is the future of man.