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Café-citoyen UPC "Sans transition" with Jean Baptiste Fressoz, CNRS energy historian
Here's a radically new history of energy that shows the fundamental strangeness of the notion of transition. It explains how materials and energies are interconnected, grow together, accumulate and pile up one on top of the other.
So why did the notion of energy transition come to the fore? How did this future without a past become, from the 1970s onwards, the future of governments, companies and experts - in short, the future of reasonable people?
The issue is fundamental, because the links between energies explain both their permanence over the very long term, and the titanic obstacles that stand in the way of decarbonization.
