La collapsologie est un courant de pensée transdisciplinaire apparu dans les années 2010 qui envisage les risques d’un effondrement de la civilisation industrielle et ses conséquences.
En France, l’étude d’un possible effondrement de la civilisation « thermo-industrielle » est initiée par l’Institut Momentum co-fondé par Yves Cochet et Agnès Sinaï. Ces derniers définissent l’effondrement comme « le processus irréversible à l’issue duquel les besoins de base (eau, alimentation, logement, habillement, énergie, etc.) ne sont plus fournis (à un coût raisonnable) à une majorité de la population par des services encadrés par la loi».
Decarbonization efforts and sustainability transformations represent highly contested socio-political projects. Yet, they often encounter various forms of depoliticization. This article illuminates how a grand socio-ecological challenge like the energy transition gets depoliticized by an unusual suspect, namely Germany's Green Party. Based on a qualitative content analysis of Green Party programs, party conventions, and additional documents published between 1980 and 2021, this article traces how the Green Party has depoliticized the energy transition over time, emphasizing a shift from radical societal change to ecological modernization. The changing stance of the German Greens on the country's energy transition reflects more profound changes of a future society the party collectively envisions through their energy and climate change agenda. These changes result from a struggle between moderates advocating incremental political reforms and radicals aiming for more fundamental and systemic societal change.
