a book written in Caen to tame transitions

Nicolas Escach and Frédérick Lemarchand, respectively geographer and sociologist in Caen (Calvados), wrote For a pedagogy of degrowth, published by Le Bord de l'eau, in November 2024. On November 20, they will be present at the Brouillon de culture bookstore to present their work, “a manifesto which modestly tries to show the way”, summarize the authors, in addition to “making people want to be interested in these questions of transitions”, particularly ecological ones.

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The book For a pedagogy of degrowth was released in mid-November, as a sign, in the wake of the 25^e barometer of social representations of climate change from the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) which did not escape Nicolas Escach. We read there “that 29% of French people consider that climatic disorders and their consequences are natural phenomena as there have always been, without human contributionhe is alarmed. This is +7 points compared to 2023 and +12 points compared to 2020.”

This is one indicator among others that it is urgent “to awaken everywhere to ecological redirection”