Energy (fossil, renewable) is increasingly ubiquitous in our societies and at the core of the current polycrisis of climate change, the rise in far-right wing populism, the Gaza genocide, the unaffordability of living, and related psycho-social-ecological impacts. However, Social Psychology is yet to fully recognize Energy as an object of academic interest and engage with people-energy relations as a crucial arena of socio-psychological governance and socio-political structuring and subjectivation in today’s societies. In this keynote, I will propose how developing a Critical Environmental Psychology approach to the climate crisis and the green transition can be crucial to address that neglect and the multiple intersecting crises of our times.

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