"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
Published for the first time by the AES, this tool dedicated to the security of the electricity supply paints a potentially critical picture of the country's situation within a quarter of a century.
In response to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's recent interview, sustainable development expert René Longet offers another reading of the French historian's theses, defending the idea of a "voluntarist discrimination" between the different forms of energy.
"The finding is sobering: the more the indicators signaling the environment's growing inability to sustain our activities turn red, the less we want to know about it," laments René Longet, sustainable development expert and author of 'Planète Etat d’urgence: les réponses de la durabilité'.
"Since the early 1970s, the human species, very unevenly, has begun to consume each year more resources than it replaces (or recycles)," recalls René Longet, author of "Planète Etat d’urgence: les réponses de la durabilité".
A dramatic turn of events and a sign of the times: the international conference convened in Busan, South Korea on this subject ended in the early hours of 2 December 2024 in failure.
