Pablo Servigne

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Pablo Servigne (* 1978 in Versailles ) is a French agricultural engineer , author and speaker . He is known as the word creator and pioneer of collapsologie ( French ; 'collapsology').

In 2002 he graduated from the Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech from 2008 he graduated as Doctor in sciences (fr.) At the Free University of Brussels the behavior and ecology of ants .

In the following years he taught at the alternative cultural organization Barricade in Liège . From 2010 he wrote articles for the media. Among other things, he organized meetings according to the method presented by Joanna Macy " The Work that Reconnects ".

His interests are in ecological transition , agroecology , collapsology and collective resilience .

Collapsology

Together with Raphaël Steven, he coined the term collapsology . This is defined as “ transdisciplinary study of the collapse of our industrial civilization and what could follow it”. The collapse is understood as a consequence of resource consumption, at the end of which the basic needs (water, food, housing, clothing, energy, etc.) of a large part of the population can no longer be met at a reasonable price.

Servigne considers such a collapse to be likely by 2030, which will occur through a kind of domino or snowball effect caused by several effects at the same time: climate change , the end of oil resources ( peak oil ), the loss of biodiversity and vulnerability the financial systems and the economy. Even approaches to a green economy could no longer avert an abrupt change in the everyday life of the population. At this point, a culture of mutual support ( entraide ) and altruism is particularly important: those who cooperate with one another will survive. Servigne sees similarities between the approach of collapsology and some approaches of the survival scene, for example permaculture projects in this scene. However, collapsology emphasizes less individual and more collective measures.

Servigne and his co-author Stevens place the concept of collapse in close relation to the concept of (social) resilience .

criticism

Critics interpret the considerations discussed under the term collapsology as a new ideology . The foreword to Comment tout peut s'effondrer , written by the former minister Yves Cochet , also provoked criticism , in which he called for the solution to the problem to have fewer children. The lurid neo-Malthusian theories Servignes put it from the perspective of science historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz near reactionary forces always had founded a threatening shortage of raw materials the necessity of colonialism.

The author Jérémie Cravatte explains that Servigne and others who propagate collapsology would consciously cultivate the semblance of science with the suffix -logie , but would not respond to criticism of their basic assumptions, in contradiction to the scientific approach. While they would correctly draw attention to processes such as environmental change and give rise to debate about them, they would mistakenly infer an all-encompassing process of doom. Rather, it is correct that there are always individual upheavals. The representatives of a collapsology would invite you to go through a process of mourning and to come to an acceptance of the supposedly inevitable, although it is not clear what this refers to: the climate, biodiversity, public services or everything together. In the context of collapsology, the existing is generally no longer viewed as important. The approach does include individual constructive elements - such as eco-settlements - which, however, are not integrated into an overall picture. As positive, Cravatte underlines the approach of breaking free from dependencies and overcoming a national economy based on (raw material) overexploitation ( extractivism ) .

The agricultural economist and author Daniel Tanuro criticizes that the book Une autre fin du monde est possible romanticizes the life of premodern communities and that it can all too easily be abused for reactionary purposes - without the intention of Servignes. As an example, he cites that Servigne and others would refer to Mircea Eliade and Carl Gustav Jung , among others , but they sympathized with fascism . The approach of collapsology is flawed in four ways: it is narrowed to humans and ignores the species extinction that has already occurred ; it is narrowed down to rich people in the Occident and ignores the suffering of other people that can already be observed; he mixes crises that have already arisen with the increasingly delayed timing of peak oil , and he "depoliticizes" the ecological crisis. The political function of the discourse about the collapse is uncertain: it could mobilize people for climate protection, but also strengthen nuclear energy or geoengineering , for example . Tanuro considers the risk of a collapse to be real, but criticizes the fact that the discourse under the term collapsology conceals the cause of this risk, which is rooted in capitalism . In addition, the impression is given that a considerable decline in population is inevitable, which invites resignation . It is more appropriate and radical to fundamentally question some of what is taken for granted today.

Books

  • Pablo Servigne: Nourrir l'Europe en temps de crise: Vers des systèmes alimentaires résilients , 2014, Nature et progrès, ISBN 978-29-303-8652-2 . With foreword by Yves Cochet and afterword by Olivier De Schutter .
  • Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens: Comment tout peut s'effondrer: Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes , Seuil , April 2015, ISBN 978-20-212-2331-6 . (English translation by Andrew Brown: How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times , Polity, 2020, ISBN 978-15-095-4139-3 .)
  • Agnès Sinaï, Hugo Carton, Raphaël Stevens, Pablo Servigne: Petit traité de résilience locale , Charles Léopold Mayer, September 2015, ISBN 978-28-437-7186-6 .
  • Pablo Servigne, Gauthier Chapelle: L'entraide, l'autre loi de la jungle , 2017, Les Liens qui libèrent, ISBN 979-10-209-0440-9 .
  • Pablo Servigne Nourrir l'europe en temps de crise , 2017, Actes Sud , ISBN 978-23-300-8657-2 . With foreword by Perrine Hervé-Gruyer and Yves Cochet and with afterword by Olivier De Schutter.
  • Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle: Une autre fin du monde est possible , 2018, Seuil, ISBN 978-20-213-3258-2 . With foreword by Dominique Bourg and afterword by Cyril Dion

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A propos de l'auteur. In: bmvr.marseille.fr. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b Pablo Servigne: Bio. In: pabloservigne.com. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Matthias Sander: "Collapsologists" are preparing for the downfall of our civilization - and praise Switzerland as a role model. In: nzz.ch. January 31, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Solène Houzé: Collapsologie. Les enjeux de la transition à travers l'analyse de l'effondrement de notre civilization. (PDF; 544 kB) Retrieved on February 5, 2020 (French): "La collapsologie est un" exercice transdisciplinaire d'étude de l'effondrement de notre civilization industrial et ce qui pourrait lui succéder "où l'effondrement est défini comme" le processus 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 »“ p. 3.
  5. ↑ Eric Tariant: Collapsology: Et si on s'organisait pour la fin du monde? In: wedemain.fr. October 29, 2018, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Pablo Servigne: "Je défends un catastrophisme positif". In: Uzbek & Rica. August 10, 2016, accessed February 3, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ Jean-Marie Harribey: La collapsologie, une nouvelle idéologie? In: pressegauche.org. August 27, 2019, accessed on February 3, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ Interview with Eddy Fougier: Extinction rébellion. La collapsologie, l'idéologie non violente qui risque de ne pas le rester. In: pressegauche.org. October 9, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 (French).
  9. ^ A b Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: La collapsologie: un discours réactionnaire. In: Liberation . November 7, 2018, accessed February 6, 2020 (French).
  10. ↑ Jérémie Cravatte: dépasser les limites de la collapsologie. In: pressenza.com. January 12, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Daniel Tanuro. In: babelio.com. Retrieved June 20, 2020 (French).
  12. ↑ Pascale Monnier, Daniel Tanuro: climatique Crise, collapsologie ... L'ingénieur agronome Daniel Tanuro refuse de se résigner. In: europe-solidaire.org. October 27, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2020 (French).
  13. ^ Elisabeth Lagasse: Contre l'effondrement, pour une pensée radicale des mondes possibles. In: contretemps.eu. July 18, 2018, accessed February 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Servigne, Pablo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French agricultural engineer, author and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles