Bernard Charbonneau (November 28, 1910 – April 28, 1996) was a French writer who wrote about twenty books and numerous articles, published in La Gueule Ouverte, Foi et Vie, La République des Pyrénées. An apolitical and independent thinker, he is considered to be a major inspiration for various French ecological movements. His name is regularly mentioned by French academics. as well French green party leaders. The underlying idea inspiring his books and articles is that "the link that attaches individual persons to society is so strong that, even in the so called 'individualistic society', people struggle to exercise the critical thinking needed to resist mass trends, and end up readily consenting to the annihilation of what they cherish most: their freedom". In the 1930s, he associated economic development with a form of dictatorship and came to be recognized as a pioneer in political ecology. Sceptical of all forms of partisanship, including partisancship in the area of ecology, he laid out the foundation of a new type of society based on personal experience, in rupture with most accepted ideologies of the 20th century. He shared many of the personalist views of his friend of sixty years Jacques Ellul regarding technological progress, which both men regarded as a source of conformism and a threat to freedom. Source: Wikipedia (en)