Without Transition, Editions du Seuil

Here is a radically new story of energy that shows the fundamental strangeness of the notion of transition. It explains how materials and energies are interconnected, grow together, accumulate and stack on each other.
Why then did the notion of energy transition become mandatory? How did this future without a past become, from the 1970s, that of governments, companies and experts, in short, the future of reasonable people?
The challenge is fundamental because the links between energies explain both their permanence in the very long term, as well as the titanic obstacles that stand on the road to decarbonization.

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment. After having been a lecturer at the Imperial College in London, he is now a researcher at the CNRS, teaching at the EHESS and the Ecole des ponts et chaussées. He has already published in Seuil L'Apocalypse joyeuse, Les Révoltes du ciel (with Fabien Locher), and L'Événement anthropocène (with Christophe Bonneuil).

-Item weight:   474 g
-Paperback   :   416 pages
-Language   :   French
-Publisher   :   THRESHOLD (January 12, 2024)
-Dimensions:   14.5 x 2.5 x 18.9 cm