Christophe Claude

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Christophe Claude is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Wirk4Tomorrow, and a sustainability consultant helping companies navigate regulatory, environmental, and resource uncertainty. Claude is also a Climate Interactive ambassador and frames sustainability challenges through the lens of ancient and contemporary philosophy, asking what enduring human insights can guide us through the planetary crisis. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Tokyo University.

Christophe Claude

May 10 2026

True epicureanism is what we need to solve the planetary crisis

Illuminem Voices

Climate Change · Nature

Epicurus, long caricatured as a hedonist, taught a discipline of desire strikingly similar to Buddhism's reduction of craving. Both recognized that we are wired to chase what harms us—a diagnosis now confirmed by neuroscience and civilizational archaeology. Bruno Latour's 'Where to Land?' framework offers the tool to scale this ancient wisdom into collective action, making sufficiency the cultural foundation of our response to the planetary crisis.