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# What Rob Hopkins told the French President about life after growth
- URL: https://news.transitionnetwork.org/what-rob-hopkins-told-the-french-president-about-life-after-growth/
- Published: 2013-09-10T23:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-06T23:56:11.000Z
- Author: Transition Network international
- Tags: #News, #Import 2026-03-17

We [wrote a while ago here](https://archive25.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2013-07/chandeliers-president-france-and-future-economic-growth-report?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) about when Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins spoke at the *An Innovative Society for the Twenty-First Century* event in Paris, organised “under the aegis of” the President of France, which explored what life after growth might look like in the French context. The video of the talk is now available, so if you would like to see how he framed Transition in such esteemed company (although the President didn’t actually attend himself), you can see the video of the talk [here](https://www.terre.tv/en/5504%5Fthe-construction-of-innovation?ref=news.transitionnetwork.org) (Rob’s presentation starts at 10:30). It begins with his explanation as to why he will be giving the talk whilst chewing gum.

Following the talk, he gave an interview (without his glasses, due to the glare from the room’s many chandeliers!). Here it is: