By the end of the 1970s, the idea of the energy transition was becoming commonplace, a discursive umbrella encompassing all possible futures. Promoters of decoupling, of the stationary state, of fast-breeder reactors, of coal or solar power, environmentalists and neo-Malthusians: everyone could find their place in the highly inclusive lexicon of transition

— More and more and more by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Page 167)