Dhe heatwaves of unprecedented intensity threatened our physical integrity this summer, while the daunting spectacle of thousands of hectares of burned forests materialized the sinister oracle of President Chirac “our house is burning”. State, companies, individuals, everyone will play their part in the evolution to be expected. To initiate it and achieve it as well as possible, a new type of development of our living environments will play a driving role.
The various prospective scenarios published by the company Réseau de transport d’electricité (RTE), the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) and the négaWatt association have described the industrial challenges, based on the scientific and technical research, will be able to ensure the energy transition. When the national representation will have chosen among these equipment options, the regional and local authorities will translate them into as many regional development policies to use and enhance the local potentialities and singularities.
The first and urgent pillar of a development program remains the adoption of a policy of sobriety adapted to the trades and the situations of each one. This program will be carried out with the same ambition and the same rigor as the one that will ensure carbon-free energy production.
A multidisciplinary approach
The post-oil development of our territories will mobilize the skills of the corresponding trades in town planning, architecture, landscape, agriculture and forestry. It will generate the citizen mobilization essential to its success.
To make our cities peaceful and green, to restore biodiversity in the countryside undermined by intensive agriculture and urban sprawl, a multidisciplinary approach, commonly identified in many countries, if not always in France, as a landscape approach , is successfully practiced in many territories.
The landscape approach promotes local potential in projects for resilient and beautiful territories. The search for a balance between the economic, the social and the environmental, it is the key to achieving the urgent sustainability of our social projects.
This has been undermined by the blind promotion of a global economic model made up of competition for profit and consumerist plunder.
Sobriety is not a penalty
The implementation of the ecological transition therefore calls for a policy of communication and formation of public opinion. Have our fellow citizens all heard and understood the warning, in April, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? It is important to show that sobriety is not a penalty inflicted on some, but a principle that will govern private companies like public authorities and citizens, whatever their place in the social hierarchy.
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