Climate/energy: a story without transition

Lecture by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, historian of science, technology and the environment, researcher at the CNRS. He is the author of several books, most recently "Sans transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie".

"Our hope of containing the climate crisis depends on our ability to achieve carbon neutrality. Coal, gas and oil will have to be replaced by clean energy sources. The problem is that this comforting future is based on an imaginary past, on a false material history, punctuated by a succession of eras. Energy sources are as much symbiotic as they are competitive, and these symbiotic relationships explain why, over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, primary energies tended to add up rather than substitute each other. So why did the notion of energy transition take hold? How did this future without a past become, from the 1970s onwards, the future of our rulers, the future of consulting firms and international organizations - in short, the future of reasonable people."

Co-organized by IESF-OM, Polytech Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, as part of the Journées nationales de l'Ingénieur.

With the participation of : HiPhiS, IRD, CNRS, La Cavale bookshop.
With the expected support of the Occitanie Region.

Open to all, free of charge.