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Jean-Marc Jancovici: “Why energy crises will multiply”

2022-04-15T16:18:20.645Z


INTERVIEW - The war in Ukraine is causing energy prices to soar, but it would be illusory to believe in a return to normal in the future. We are going to suffer more and more supply faults, warns the engineer, who is examining ways to deal with them.


Jean-Marc Jancovici is a polytechnician, engineer and teacher.

He regularly speaks on topics relating to energy and ecology.

He is the main inventor of the concept of

"carbon footprint".

He co-founded The Shift Project, a laboratory of ideas dedicated to the fight against global warming and the energy transition.

He recently published with Christophe Blain

Le monde sans fin

(Dargaud), an exciting comic strip on the challenges of global warming.

LE FIGARO.- Since Russia entered the war, the question of energy, its cost, its delivery, and its vital nature for the economy have once again come to the fore.

Is this crisis the great revealer of our blindness in terms of energy?

Jean-Marc JANCOVICI.-

I no longer remember which character said:

"History teaches us that we learn nothing from history"

(Editor's note, it is about Hegel).

We have had episodes of this nature before, notably the oil shock of…

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