Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment, a researcher at the CNRS, and a professor at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is the author of several books that have been translated into several languages: Happy Apocalypse. A History of Technological Risk, Verso, 2024; The Shock of the Anthropocene, 2016 (with C. Bonneuil); Chaos in the Heavens, 2020 (with F. Locher). More and more and more. An All Consuming History of Energy, Penguin, 2024. This latest book offers a new history of energy based on the notion of ‘energy symbiosis’, which is much better suited to describing the past — and perhaps the future — than the overly common notion of ‘energy transition’. He also writes a monthly column for the newspaper Le Monde.