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The energy engineer and founder of the Shift Project think tank lays out the major climate challenges facing future governments, with six months to go before France’s 2027 presidential election.

With your new book and the citizens’ assembly on climate and energy issues that you launched, how do you intend to put pressure on the political sphere during the upcoming presidential campaign?

As long as we live in a democracy – for however long that lasts – we at The Shift Project assume that the political sphere reflects what happens in civil society, albeit imperfectly and with a time lag. In that context, we address our book to civil society, hoping that one day our views will become significant enough to change what happens at the higher levels.

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My comment: JMJ is one of the earlier public figures to gain mainstream public acceptance of understanding the forces of collapse, first in France, then abroad. His initial focus and expertise was on energy, but has expanded into other fields, such as this article about politics.

Take particular note of his fatalist view on democracy “however long that lasts”.

I’ll try to update with a full archive once available.