Presentation
This note published by Parlons Climat and IDDRI examines the strategies of environmental actors in France and suggests that entering a new phase, in which traditional minority strategies have reached their limits, requires a majority shift. The note first analyses this new dynamic, then proposes avenues for a new phase for the movement.
Read the note online on Parlons Climat's website (in French)
Extract
In order to break away from a single issue and overcome the limitations faced by environmental narratives, we proposed a new narrative approach in a recent study produced by IDDRI and Étonnamment, Si. The first observation is that all powerful political narratives are social contract narratives, i.e. they concern the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed (rights and duties) and collective organization (constraints, autonomy). The second is that we can draw on the narratives expressed by citizens themselves, in the fields of democracy, work, consumption, etc., and which play an important role in their life trajectories (see IDDRI-HotorCool study), to build, brick by brick, new narratives of social contract, into which the ecological question will be integrated.
