The End of The Green Illusion: 13 Theses For a New Ecology

How should the energy transition be understood in a world shaped by conflict, geopolitical fragmentation and shifting power dynamics? In a new doctrine piece published in Le Grand Continent, Emmanuel Guérin, Vice-Dean of the Paris Climate School at Sciences Po, offers an ambitious analytical framework to address this question.

Entitled “The End of the Green Illusion: Thirteen Theses for a New Ecology”, the article lies at the heart of the Paris Climate School’s intellectual project: connecting environmental challenges with contemporary economic, industrial and geopolitical dynamics. Moving beyond a purely normative approach, the analysis argues for a form of “ecological realism” that fully integrates power relations, strategic dependencies and the material constraints shaping the transition.