Abstract
To talk about what should be " protect " in the " nature ", the term " biodiversity " developed in 1983, has become hegemonic in conservation biology, then in public policy, and finally in the media. In itself, it's an interesting and operational concept, when applied in the relevant contexts. But when biodiversity becomes the hegemonic name for the living world, and no longer an instrument of measurement, the concept blocks the possibilities of thought and action needed for the future - because it masks what living things really are, and who we are in them. When this unit of measurement takes the place of what is measured, it transforms the living, the daily terraforming power that makes the Earth habitable, shapes us and irrigates us from within, into a list of apathetic, fragile entities awaiting our all-powerful management. To change our societal project, we need to think of the living world as what it really is : something active, organized, constitutive, never on hold, always weaving the habitability of this world inside and outside us.
