and there gentlemen the club of Rome is a
think tank that brings together
scientists from industrialists
officials from 52 countries
in 1972 they published a report
titled of limit to growth the limits
of growth
at their request a group met
a group of researchers from ha hati and
they put the world in equation
just that and they arrived at
unstoppable finding that the great
acceleration that we have known
since the second world war was going
end
and since all the resources of
the planet are limited and well the
curves one day or the other was going
reverse itself including that of the
world population
so obviously or when the world
receives this report it’s a bit of a state
of choc
scientists and economists get
are upset obviously to reject
these theories let’s say the rather dark
however the facts are there consume
resources ever more
important in a world where precisely
they are limited
it’s a myth so I said well
that there was something that was going
not round in this world
I had a little confused feeling of
not be quite in my place
we are all immersed in an ideology
dominant who asks us to work
more to earn more to consume
more to accumulate more if possible
would we dream of becoming
billionaire have a rolex at age 50
I will let you find the authors
of this wonderful formula while me
when I was a kid I had a
education or down I was told no you do not
can not put sugar yao in your
yogurt because it’s a desire is not
a need
you see a little the kind of education
or in fact and well you have to consume that
what we have or pleasure is all
more intense than it is rare that says I
reassure you I missed absolutely
nothing essential
and so inevitably and well this
education came crashing in full
whip without my understanding too much
why and how
well this ideology in which
we are bathed every day
twenty years after the publication of the
report of the rome club a big
philosopher said depardon george bush has
says we can not be of life
the bowl the American way of life is
non-negotiable
he said that on the occasion of the summit of
the land of rio while all countries
of the planet were gathered to
make the finding of degradation of the
biosphere and so he asserted then and
although in no case can we
to question the way of life of the country
that he represented he was therefore marking the
determination of Western countries
we are part and well maintain
at any cost this way of life as
if they were generalized
generalizable to all and as if he
was sustainable in the long run
so
necessarily and well the conclusion is
nothing is negotiable
we have a way of life that has been
built for two decades thanks
to our energy slaves then
maybe this term can make you
react
the energy slave then
give me a minute to illustrate
about a liter of gasoline costs
about 1 euros 40 to get the
same amount of energy it would take
as we walk a hundred hours
four uninterrupted days of pedaling
to have the same amount of energy
who has in your liter of gas
gold each of us here in this room
consumes every year all energies
confused the equivalent of 4000 600
liters of oil
if you pay it at the price of gasoline a
is 6500 euros per person if you
pay at the price of the cyclist it’s 6 5
million euros per person
a thousand times as much as saying that
the energy that has been put to our
provision during the last
decades and that helped build
this society in which we evolve
was almost free and they are
there our energy slaves
they are with us every day there
accompanies us every moment to
every minute every second
so speaking of energetic slave
and well in my old career my
old job it was technicians to
flight tests at airbus
I participated in the development of
this huge plane
I was there on the first flight it’s me
who took the picture is huge plane
which is two stories high
length and takes over 500
passengers 250 thousand liters of fuel
in cl and in his belly and it was
really really exciting and
I was very proud of what I
did and my family also my loved ones
were proud despite everything in 2003 I
feel like a big vacuum like a
meaningless
following is a bit like all of us
in a routine as daily I
go to work can I orange puts us
in front of the computer or the TV and then
Saturday I go shopping
and then I’m always in my
car and it’s a moment a cow
decide one night to go to the meeting
of an environmental NGO and
that night all my lights up
feelings become numbers but
intuition become images I take
so far delusions unlimited
of the modern world
during the four years that go
follow where I’m going to invest in
various associations
I will learn I will understand
everything george bush did not
the occasion of the summit of the earth
climate change access to water
Peak oil tanker access to
fossil energy with all the
conflicts that it generates consumption
programmed obsolescence mass
appropriation of life by the right
dustrit with the GMO more production
chemical and toxic products with
all the pollution that can
generate economic debt and
ecological deforestation
desertification etc etc I then take
consciousness that I can no longer pass
most of my time the essentials of
my life feeding what lewis mumford
called the megamachine it’s this
social organization in which
the human is nothing more than the wheel of a
my chains a complex mechanics
whose power is absolute I could
most spend most of my time at
maintain this hellish race
rather than what save what could
to be still
so I decide to take back
studying and becoming an engineer in
energy
at the time I still believed he
existed a miracle energy a
green energy an ecological energy
and then only to have my degree myself
will promote it and then
we would have a better world
unfortunately at the conclusion he gets
finds that really clean energy
it does not exist at least for two
reasons the first is that all
energies have advantages and
cons
the only thing we need to
discusses aftereffects we
are ready to accept and the
second is that to consume
energy has transformed our
environment and so more to
consumes energy and more one
transforms our environment
since 1970 half of the population
animal has disappeared from the surface of the
surface of the earth since 1990 barely
over 25 years old 1.3 million
square kilometers of forest were
shaved and disappeared from the surface of
Earth
such oil that allowed all that is
oil is the energies
fossils this sense of energy extremely
abundant and free
almost free so doing this
finding and well I came back in 2010
in the country of my origins after having
spent a few years in Toulouse and
I came back to châteauneuf-sur-loire
with the conviction that we were going
experience deep breaks and that these
breaks will be either anticipated
be suffered then I stick to it alone
or with my campaign his son with my
family my friends my neighbors with the
town of châteauneuf and then I try
everyday is good to reinvent a
way of life on this planet that
be desirable and sustainable
and in fact it turns out that it’s
probably as exciting as
to invent how we could go
live on march
it’s all the more exciting that all
world can do it so it turns out
part of my job well
it is precisely to project myself into
the future and imagine what could
look like this world I’m doing the
prospective
that is to say, well I project myself into
2030 2040 2050 and then I say to myself
what could it look like if
precisely we could implement a
a number of things
so I made a scenario towards
resilient territories dominates 2030 the
100% renewable scenario for the
val de Loire center region on the horizon
2050
right now I’m on a screenplay
Ile de France without a car and without
oil by 2050 and the job
so my job allows me like that and
good to dream tomorrow
but to dream is certainly necessary
but it’s not enough so you have to
that we find a new way of
prosperity that is not a
increase in our income a
increase of the surface of the house
the power of the car or
number of shoes in the dressing room
we need to find a new
ambition that drives us every morning
when we get up that makes us want
to go forward
so I make you a proposal this
evening it’s the one and well of the
happy and resilient sobriety
happy sobriety is a concept
who was
opposed by stone rabhi is an agro
ecologists and philosopher the principle
is that every day and well we go
try to make sure to decrease
our energy needs in materials in
economy and in finance while
preserving see by improving our
level of well-being
our pleasure to live our
friendliness resilience that’s all
something else is the ability of a
system so that can be you so much
of people that can be your
family your neighborhood your village the
ability of this system to undergo a
shock or a disturbing change one
could imagine that we have to live
some and preserve the functions
vital
the identity of this system then
concretely how does that translate
for me well we did the
choice to have a house small house
near the city center for
can do everything on foot or by bike
we have a garden of modest size but
which allows us to learn how to make a
vegetable garden think it’s that culture
to have some hens to see some
games eliminated some rubbish we have
also dry toilets that we
reduce consumption
Drinking water and fine stage
excellent compost for the vegetable garden
a mass stove also that allows us
to heat us with wood logs
very powerful way and in addition
it warms us the water in winter and the
blow summer in winter or summer forgiveness
well, it’s our solar water heater
who takes over and then we are
to also install panels
photovoltaics to make
electricity etc
and every time we pass one of these
steps
Well, it’s really a pleasure
intense to feel that we win in
autonomy
we win to the knowledge of our life
of our way of life and that at the same
time we decrease our needs and have ten
minutes of fact our impact on the
biosphere
the transitions honor as we
could call us well we could
we characterized as
optimistic catastrophists ie
that we are convinced we will live
things not necessarily very easy
but we still have today
the opportunity to gather us from
organize ourselves to make sure that
things are going as smoothly as possible
and in all conviviality still a
time then to châteauneuf-sur-loire
with our transitional group who
is part of the movement
international transition cities
and impulse by a professor of
English permaculture called rob
hopkins well we set up a
number of groups so we have a
group working on food
from which came and well a group that
works on the production and the
seed conservation
we have a shared garden in a group
who works on health how do we
can be treated differently and that by
drugs today are made
from particular oil
we have a working group on
inner transition how one can get
change yourself so you can then
change his lifestyle and try to
change the world
we are launching a currency
local complementary to transform
also our relationship to the economy and
then finally we have a very big project
since 2016 which would be the first
house of the transition ie
that it comes we settle in a
brewery biggest brewery of
châteauneuf full downtown at the foot
of the church is in there and well one
is doing some work for
to do a big associative project in
which there is going to be a bio grocery
zero waste there will be a coffee
associations and cultures in which
people will be able to find themselves of all
generations of any culture for
play games to see
concerts etc
shows we will see a space of
coworking for workers
self-employed and and the workers
can be found in this place too
and start projects together
we are going to have a great kitchen that will
allow to make workshops of
also cooks two products
manufacture of cosmetic products
a bicycle repair shop
for home appliances etc
rather than throwing them away we will try
to learn to repair them finally here is
so a lot of things going on
find in that same place and who are going
to allow us precisely is good to
give relief to all this and to
to make sure and that
collectively we advance towards and well
more sustainable lifestyle than it does
could be so far
planet is showing us
his limits
and that’s not negotiable so we
can still decide to continue
to enjoy it until the end of nothing
change and then come on that will
we can also decide to choose
rather than undergoing
evolution of the world
happy sobriety and transition
towards local resilience
it’s a promising track that I had
want to share with you tonight
this transition that I told you
in about fifteen minutes after
fifteen years of my life
the change is long even when
is convinced then do not wait anymore
thank you
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