Abundance, with Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Nathanaël Wallenhorst
A meeting dedicated to social debates, "S'inspirer, Respirer" series, conceived by journalist and author Jean-Marie Durand, focuses on the environmental, social, racial and democratic impasses around which our era is woven. During this meeting, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Nathanaël Wallenhorst will discuss the theme of abundance.
Abundance is over
What does the end of abundance is the promise of ?
Will the end of abundance be the condition of our freedom?
This fall's energy crisis has caught up with us to remind us of an obvious fact that only skeptics and followers of infinite productivism wanted to conceal: the end of "abundance", as President Macron himself emphasized on July 14. The end of abundance has thus become a new political program, coming from the top of the State, concerned with reducing our energy consumption. That is to say with a general overconsumption, which exceeds the only framework of the material ease of some. Abundance is thus a word used to describe the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. However, the need to put an end to a certain abundance, to move towards a form of sobriety in our modes of production and consumption, has been documented since the beginning of the 1970s and the Club of Rome, up to the recent book by Pierre Charbonnier, Abondance et Liberté.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, historian of science, technology and the environment, is a researcher at the CNRS. His research focuses on environmental history, the Anthropocene, modern disinhibitions and the history of climate knowledge.
Nathanaël Wallenhorst is a lecturer at the Catholic University of the West (UCO). His research focuses on the educational and political implications of the entry into the Anthropocene, educational sciences, political anthropology, environmental sciences.
