(en) France, Coordination Groups Anarchistes CGA IAL #93 - The energy a matter of social organization (fr)

Ecology CGA ---- Often summarized the ecological question to limited resources. If this 
issue is part of the ecology, it can not fully contain, and is even a small part of the 
energy issue , which is primarily the result of a social organization (and therefore not 
strictly-speaking a issue green ). ---- Resources on Earth are limited, they all 
eventually reach a peak after which the extraction will be more difficult, costly, and 
ultimately unprofitable. This has already happened for hydrocarbons, which would extract 
present in countries that consume despite the serious health and environmental destruction 
known and should arrive in about 30 years (at the current rate of consumption) for all 
other known resources 1 . The unit capitalist colossus had feet of clay based primarily on 
a resource.

Es some think they can avoid these problems by new techniques or new extractions. But no 
really effective technique to replace the extraction and processing of oil is now 
presented two , and even that there is a peak of extraction, there is a peak of discovery 
(usually logically prior to peak extraction) which is generally exceeded: the few new 
discoveries never replace the amount it was possible to simultaneously extract until today.

Against the current readings that are individual consumption as the source of the problem 
and whose baton culpabilisatrice is stronger in times of "crisis" (refuse shale gas, would 
not only want to eat it raw, but most refuse work in the territory!), it is rather to show 
that not only the energy is a problem among many, but also that it can be resolved against 
another organization. A local organization and social, less energy and more 
environmentally friendly which is not that of the decline of the hierarchy and closure but 
egalitarian and open partageuse. As patriarchy is far from disappearing during the crisis, 
the problems identified by our ecological knowledge persist. Anarchism is opposed not only 
to economic exploitation, but all the mechanisms of exploitation, dispossession and 
authority. Energy is a problem for us because we depend on a specific technical equipment 
made necessary by lifestyles themselves constrained by the organization. Much of the 
energy we do not ever happen, because it is consumed by the system itself for its 
operation. It is not we who constitute a problem, but that equipment and those who run it. 
They organize our addictions, our operations, and the destruction of life on earth. Let's 
finish with this system.

It is the social organization that organizes and forced energy expenditure through the 
freedoms left to individuals . This is the general structure and planning in particular 
(notably through the organization of space) that promotes forced transport and distances 
to be traveled. The particular orientation that gives global capitalism leads to 
additional energy expenditure that we found the billboard lights and lighted windows at 
night, to spend additional energy it takes to produce more to sell less expensive (and not 
defeated by the needs of their dispositions) or gendered productions and thought rather 
use individually and collectively, but also to repair and maintain the junk produced 
itself, which in this context is thought not to last, but as a step which will be 
overtaken by the next product that may come to replace it.

The loophole company promoted by a "service" alleged polluter (ie excluding electronic 
waste transport ....) is far lower energy costs.

There is no energy without pollution, without destruction . The extraction of rare earths 
needed for wind turbines, solar panels or insolvent is a problem with the social 
consequences 3 and ecological 4 will not disappear. And even beyond these issues, the 
waste of certain energy sources we will ask radical questions: how could an anarchist 
society failing to produce, manage nuclear waste present for many years.

The main alternative energy say in a process of greenwashing are put forward to hide the 
destruction of the majority of known energy actually used. But do not be fooled, 
renewables are clearly the future of capitalism or fuel already widely deployed Total and 
BP. Charbonneau as envisioned: " The greening will not be the result of a very small 
minority opposition, without means, but the ruling bourgeoisie, the day she can not do 
otherwise. This will be the various responsible for the ruin of the earth organize the 
rescue of the few that remain, and after that will manage the scarcity abundance and 
survival. Because those have no prejudice, they do not believe that more development 
ecology, they believe only in power, which is that to do what can not be done otherwise. 5 
"The search for these energies is not in a social or environmental purpose, but for the 
merchandise. Land that could be used for food are then used to authoritatively fuel or 
energy. In the end, one of the questions at the center of the energy problem is the 
possible use of land or the popular tax renewable States, industry and international 
institutions.

Energy is far from being a matter of limited resources technician and ask rather use the 
foreground and popular management of soil, then the values ??with which we structure a 
social organization, and finally how these vital issues will we escape the logic 
oligarchic expertise.

For the latter problem, it is always possible to do research to develop or restore local 
knowledge, easy to transmit and retain (so that everyone acquire intellectual and not 
allow the exclusion of the "secret of State "[nuclear] or business [risks due to soil 
fracturing]), with local materials and renewable, all in a federated organization (there 
is always sun and wind water but not in the same locations ). The goal is that we can 
build, repair and maintain ourselves dependencies that we have chosen, promoting our 
freedom, rather than our enslavement.

Current struggles against the oil shale and EHV lines, are only the face of attacks on 
capitalist destructive device. We still have to figure out how to bring our other 
arguments publicly.



Florian (Montpellier Group - Another Future)

1 Pic gas: between 2020 and 2030, coal by 2025 uranium in 2035, 20 metals in 30 years.

2 This scientism knows its equivalent mirror through belief in a supposed free energy 
extracted from the force of the universe itself, or a production method that would provide 
more than it would cost (as a supernumerary motor). These beliefs are the foundation pit 
in contradiction with our current knowledge widely tested and especially with the general 
principle of entropy (second law of thermodynamics) that converts energy can only decrease 
term in the universe. Negentropy we can not organize maybe temporarily located within the 
general entropy.

3 Both workers (Through the history of the conditions of minors, August 16, 2012 or thirty 
striking miners have been killed and seriously injured sixty miners in South Africa. 
dozens He died each year) that the people (Indigenous expelled from their place of living 
and housing, which is bad taste to live on mineral resources ...).

4 Destruction of groundwater and / or pollution of rivers and soils are habitat 
destruction by land, aquatic, but also all those who have access to water.

5 Feu Vert, self-criticism of the environmental movement .