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2025-04-30 08:59:53
Energy transition: the end of an idea
submitted by https://slrpnk.net/u/solo
(…) As I see it, people need to stop talking about transition and instead focus conversations around three other things. First, we can still welcome technologies like renewables, but we need to stop hailing them as saviour technologies that will rescue the high-energy business-as-usual world. Second, we need to start talking about energy priorities – what people need, rather than what they might like to have. This in turn means talking about global fairness, about how the energy pie is divided up, rather than talking airily about transitions to an abundant low-carbon, high-energy future promising prosperity for the present global poor. Any genuine concern for fairness has to be as much or more about lowering the wealthy than lifting the poor. Third, it means talking about adaptation to climate breakdown and other forces likely to upend the familiar contours of the present world, because a transition isn’t on the cards. Ultimately, I think those conversations lead to agrarian localism and a small farm future.
Here is a link from Anna’s archive to download Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s book https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&q=more+and+more+and+more+Jean-Baptiste+Fressoz&display=&lang=en&sort=
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https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-28/energy-transition-the-end-of-an-idea/
https://lemmy.world/post/28901851