But who does he have behind this word Collapse, synonymous with collapse, and now used to talk about the decay of our industrial civilization?
The literary reference seems to be the book of Pablo Sevigne entitled "How everything can collapse. Small manual of collapsology for the use of the present generations".
Summary :
And if our civilization collapsed? Not in many centuries, but in our lifetime. Far from Mayan predictions and other millenarian eschatologies, a growing number of authors, scientists and institutions announce the end of the industrial civilization as it has been constituted for more than two centuries. What should we think of these dark predictions? Why has it become so difficult to avoid such a scenario?
In this book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens dissect the springs of a possible collapse and offer an interdisciplinary overview of this subject - very uncomfortable - which they call "collapsology". By putting words to intuitions shared by many of us, this book gives intelligibility to the phenomena of "crises" that we are experiencing, and above all, gives meaning to our time. Because today, utopia has changed sides: a utopian is someone who believes that everything can continue as before. Collapse is the horizon of our generation, it is the beginning of its future. What will be next? All of this remains to be thought about, imagined, and lived ...
Pablo Servigne is an agricultural engineer and a doctor of biology. A specialist in questions of collapse, transition, agroecology and mutual aid mechanisms, he is the author of Nourrir Europe en temps de crisis (Nature & Progrès, 2014).
The concept of collapsology is a young academic discipline that consists of thinking about the sustainability (or lack thereof) of our thermo-industrial production system by cross-checking the conclusions of the various existing research fields (biology, economics, environmental studies, etc ...). His eponymous thesis is simple: we are heading towards a collapse (collapse, in English) of this system and therefore of our current way of life.
From this observation, several options including, among others, the preparation for the end of the world as the famous American survivalists (to caricature: we dig bunkers, we arm themselves and we made food stocks). Or, to open a discussion space to evoke what such a collapse means, its stakes, the fears and anxieties that it can bring about in each of us, and the possible alternatives and ways of transition at our disposal ...
As the French collapsologists Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens and Gauthier Chapelle indicate, the first work to consider any transition in a collapsing environment is first of all interior. It is a work of reflection, of acceptance, of bonding with a community to preserve the hope and the strength to live tomorrow, and not just to survive it. We want to believe in tomorrow, and in ourselves, including in times of crisis, a kind of "Happy Collapse."
In short, the Collapsologie :
- Is it just a way to make the Buzz scary? ,
- to use an esoteric word to shine in society? ,
- to analyze and understand in a less consensual way the question of the decay of contemporary civilization?
- ...?