It is essential for our survival as a species that we reverse the degradation of the earth's life support systems. Agriculture and industry organised by principles of capital accumulation are inherently destroying their environment thus it is necessary contradicts the ecological knowledge gathered since the 19th century. Thus a new and ecological civilisation must be non-capitalistic. Its main pillars will include the self-organisation of living and working communities, biodiversity, and in several cases self-sufficiency that are matched with global cultural interchange and cooperation.

The second reality has the feature of making illusion complete. What kind of illusion? The illusion we have, that there is no need for action to protect the first reality from its annihilation. The annihilation of the first reality is natural, the illusion says, because it will be replaced by total virtual reality. I-generation is the unconscious constructor and instrument of this nightmare.

Synthetic biology the applied science for creating new biological sub-systems and organisms more and more gets into focus of the public, especially now as US researcher Craig Venter could successfully create a bacterium which has fully artificial genetic codes. "Creating life" now is becoming actual reality. In the articles collected here French scientists are debating the possible use and threats of synthetic biology.