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In the actions which he directed in NGO, he was particularly in charge of the help to Central
and Saharan Africa, following in that the tracks of his father, Louis Carl, French ethnologist
(1924-1982), explorer specialist in African civilizations, who had discovered and deciphered
the prehistoric frescoes of Hoggar and Tibesti. In the most known works of Louis Carl,
Tefedest (Arthaud, Paris-1953), The City of Salt (Julliard, Paris-1954), and Mountains in the
Desert (Doubleday and Co, New York, 1954), the source of the naturalist inspiration of the
son may be found.

But Marc Carl went farther. He linked environmental humanism to a philosophy of evolution.
In his comprehension, the clever living being can change whole or part of the universal
evolution. And hereafter the human evolution depending more on his culture than on natural
selection, it must follow a permanent process of adaptation to the evolutive environment,
where its thought must remain as free as possible, and where all mankind must necessarily
unite to prevent being self-destroyed, sharing its means efficiently. Marc Carl wanted also to
show that human spirit can progress better accepting the possibility of error and the possibility
of correcting it permanently.