"In September new Pokémon arrive and I wanted to put this old debate on the table, a debate that had taken place at the exit of the application.
Nature falls apart, fades, regresses, and suffers at the same time from blows, but also because of an indifference which is often due to a lack of knowledge of the living. We are living in a critical period and I note that the success of these Pokémon is confirmed while at the same time we have lost 60% of the mammals during the last decades!
No report will you tell me?
However, it is unbearable to live this collapse of the living (in concomitance with a fictitious restocking of our planet Earth) while rejoicing in an anthology of virtual species that grab the attention.
" When you walk on your smartphone, how can you focus on something else? "Nature close to home, in the countryside, mountains, oceans and even in and around our cities is populated by a biodiversity of proximity which regresses and which we must worry more closely to be able to love it and so better protect her.
For that, you have to know how to name it. Hubert Reeves himself said: "I saw a wild flower, AND when I knew his name I found it more beautiful"!
I am pleased to see that many gamers open their horizons to new spaces. But to go to the real contact of nature, it is our relationship with time that we must first reconsider. To observe nature, discover and observe living species and learn their names (why not at the same time as catching Pokémon), it is necessarily a game of patience during which we sharpen our eyes with each exit.
The danger is that sometimes Mewtwo and his ilk can be an artefact that is positioned between the physical world and ourselves and can be a screen to our reconvention to Nature.
Thus, the places of capture can know a quantitatively disturbing frequentation, which does not necessarily nourish the naturalist culture ...
"Heard on europe1:
If the two quests meet, I'll remove my post, excuse myself flatly and join you with a Pokeball!
"When you walk on your smartphone, how can you focus on something else?
I read that the game is inspired by the living and teaches us details about this or that existing species or mythology, but what are we going to get inspired when we will be on the ground only with the representatives of our species? However impossible or nightmarish thing because we need all the complementarity of life and ecosystem services that nature makes us to live ...
Pokémon trainers should be strong advocates of the palpable nature if their motivation is driven by the same desire to discover and learn about the path they are taking than to track down pokémons.
If the two quests meet and the players make it known loudly and say 'GO, let's save them all!' I would withdraw my post, excuse myself flatly and join you with a Pokeball! "
Re-listen to Fanny Agostini's column, "Pokémon GO ... away":