Global warming, energy crisis, disappearance of biodiversity, global pollution, wars over water and other resources: the planet is not well and humanity is living on borrowed time. All the lights are red as whistleblowers redouble their efforts to educate people about what awaits us. Here are 10 energy and climate experts (but also on the planet and living things) who will have an impact on you.
The dazzling development of the human species over the past two centuries has been based on the growth of a energy abundant and accessible at low cost, what are called fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal). We thought it would never end…
It has since been realized that C02 emissions on the planet are climbing exponentially, increasing the greenhouse effect which irremediably raises temperatures everywhere on the planet.
This results in cascading phenomena, such as changes in rainfall patterns, the frequency and intensity of fires, floods, droughts, hurricanes, melting of the glaciers which leads to a ocean rise, etc. Don’t throw any more, just let us know what lies ahead.
10 high-impact energy and climate experts
Here is a selection of 10 authors and energy and climate experts, very present on YouTube, whom we recommend for the clarity of their speech (sometimes scary, it is true). The subject of global warming is so vast and complex that above all we need a lot of education to understand what awaits us.
Jean-Marc Jancovici
Jean-Marc Jancovici, polytechnic engineer and energy and climate expert, is the designer of the carbon footprint and co-founded the association The Shift Project.
* [Livre] The Endless World, energy miracle and climate drift
* [Web] Jancovici.com
* [Vidéo] You will have to make sacrifices
* [Vidéo] Yes, it’s a bit shitty!
“Unlike a lot of problems that you can solve when you say stop. There, unfortunately, if we stop, the problem is not over. Once we have put CO2 in the atmosphere, it takes thousands of years for it to go away. »
Jean-Marc Jancovici
Aurelien Barrau
Aurélien Barrau, astrophysicist, is very committed to questions of ecology. It supports firm and immediate political action on climate change.
* [Livre] The greatest challenge in human history
* [Vidéo] When Science calls for help for humanity
* [Vidéo] For a political, poetic and philosophical revolution
” What makes the earth beautiful is the great tribe of the living, it’s the fact that we have incredible diversity. If we lose that, I’m not afraid to call it the end of the world and, right now, we’re losing it. »
Aurelien Barrau
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Historian of science, technology and the environment, is a lecturer at Imperial College, London.
* [Livre] The Joyful Apocalypse, a history of technological risk
* [Vidéo] The transition will not take place
* [Vidéo] Transition, con trap
“Faced with this enormous challenge that is the climate crisis, an absolutely unprecedented phenomenon, we have recycled ways of seeing energy and ways of thinking about the development of techniques that are not at all up to what must be faced. »
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Philippe Bihouix
Philippe Bihouix, engineer specializing in the depletion of mineral resources and promoter of low-tech, is the author of several essays on environmental issues.
* [Livre] Happiness was for tomorrow
* [Vidéo] Technology won’t save us
* [Vidéo] The lie of green growth?
“We will have to multiply by 20 or 25 the speed at which we carry out the thermal renovation of existing buildings today, so it will not be done just with my Prime Rénov ‘and the insulation of the attic for one euro. »
Philippe Bihouix
Arthur Keller
Arthur Keller is an aerospace engineer by training, author and lecturer specializing in the study of systemic risks and resilience strategies.
* [Livre] The collapse of the human empire
* [Vidéo] We must attack the system!
* [Vidéo] What if we put the climatologists in their place?
* [Vidéo] Collapse: the only realistic scenario
“Humanity has decided to take things lightly, while we are talking about the habitability of planet earth. That’s what’s at stake and a lot of people don’t really care. »
Arthur Keller
Valerie Masson-Delmotte
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, paleoclimatologist and director of research at the CEA, devotes her work to the evolution of past climates and the impact of the future climate.
* [Livre] What climate for you, your children, your grandchildren?
* [Vidéo] It’s more serious than expected
* [Vidéo] The report that announces the apocalypse?
” Some people think that their wealth will protect them from the potentially very serious consequences of a climate that we no longer control. It is an illusion. »
Valerie Masson-Delmotte
Pablo Servigne
Pablo Servigne is particularly interested in issues of ecological transition, agroecology, collapsology and collective resilience.
* [Livre] Another end of the world is possible
* [Vidéo] The Collapse of Civilization?
* [Vidéo] A lesson in collapsology
” There are stories that we have been telling ourselves for so long that they seem like indisputable truths. Among these stories, there is that of progress, which tells that our society can grow without end. »
Pablo Servigne
Guillaume Pitron
Guillaume Pitron is a journalist specializing in raw materials, author and director of documentaries.
* [Livre] The war of rare metals
* [Vidéo] The smoke of the ecological transition
* [Vidéo] Rare metals: the hidden face of the energy transition
“The ecological transition is a decoy, it is a mystification. It’s a technical, industrial transition, a transition from oil fields to metal mines, it’s not an ecological transition. »
Guillaume Pitron
Magali Reghezza-Zitt
Magali Reghezza-Zitt, geographer and member of the High Council for Climate, is an expert in the notions of risk, resilience and adaptation in the context of environmental change.
* [Livre] Resilience: Societies and territories in the face of uncertainty, risks and disasters
* [Vidéo] Heat waves, fires, floods: how to avoid the worst?
* [Vidéo] How to think the society of uncertainty?
” Todayon is able to say that a certain number of events that we thought impossible at the beginning of the 20th century, or in any case very rare, will become not so rare as that. »
Magali Reghezza-Zitt
Vincent Mignerot
Vincent Mignerot, independent researcher and essayist, believes that a decline of our civilization is inevitable.
* [Web] Vincent-mignerot.fr
* [Livre] The energy of denial: How the energy transition will increase CO2 emissions
* [Vidéo] Collapse, Emotions and Taboos
* [Vidéo] The Energy of Denial
” Today, there are 2 things that are increasing in parallel, CO emissions2 and promise shows. I don’t know what to do with these technical recommendations and these abounding solutions, because none manages to counteract CO emissions in the least.2. »
Vincent Mignerot
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer, director and environmental activist, chairs the foundation GoodPlanet.
* [Livre] Legacy
* [Films] human – Home
* [Vidéo] Will our comfort kill us?
* [Vidéo] 50 years of Utopia?
” When there is a march for the climate, we are 50,000 and we are happy. When there is the arrival of the World Cup, we are 3 million in the street. When we will be 3 million in the street to demonstrate against climate change, politicians will listen to us. »
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
