Constructive post-collapse vision – The Green Empire of the East and the West and EL4DEV by Paul Elvere DELSART
I am Paul Elvere DELSART, and I am the author of the EL4DEV program. This program is not merely one initiative among many. It is a radical transformation process, a disruptive engineering effort intended to build a new society after the collapse. It is rooted in a firm determination to move beyond obsolete models of governance, economics, and social relationships, which have shown their limitations in the face of the systemic crises affecting the world today. The EL4DEV program was conceived as a global response to the inefficiency of dominant structures and the progressive collapse of our current systems. It is a mechanism of collective organization based on decentralized cooperation, intellectual co-construction, societal diplomacy, and the self-organization of local communities. It is founded on the science of complex and self-regulating systems and is inspired by a deeply humanist, spiritual, and ecological vision. The Green Empire of the East and the West represents the political, cultural, spiritual, and civilizational vision of this process. It is the image of what a regenerated world could be, where nations cooperate freely, where individuals are empowered, and where natural resources are respected. It is not an empire in the traditional, centralized, or conquering sense. It is an empire of consciousness, shared values, and collective knowledge, a societal and ecological empire whose ultimate purpose is the creation of a new golden age. This project is founded on the implementation of concrete multifunctional physical structures called LE PAPILLON SOURCE. These infrastructures are far more than parks or educational cities. They are centers of transformation, training, experimentation, and dissemination of alternative models. They are the commanderies of the new societal order initiated by the EL4DEV program, the cores around which territories are regenerated. Through the Vegetal Calderas, these vertical vegetal structures with ecological, energetic, and educational properties, we transform landscapes, generate biodiversity, and reconnect living beings with their environment. The EL4DEV program is also a narrative framework, a Live Action Role Playing game (LARP) in an Alternate Reality (ARG) where each individual, each municipality, each nation becomes an active participant in the construction of this new society. The deliberate blurring of fiction and reality, the use of utopian narratives and transmedia storytelling are meant to provoke a collective awakening, to bring people out of inertia, and to trigger deep awareness. By immersing themselves in the universe of the Green Empire of the East and the West, everyone is invited to take action, to co-create, and to self-transform. The program connects small municipalities, researchers, artists, ethical entrepreneurs, and citizens of all ages. It creates powerful territorial dynamics based on participatory investment, the pooling of knowledge and resources, and the development of meaningful and transformative projects. It replaces power struggles with cooperation, vertical policies with inclusive and distributed governance. The Green Empire of the East and the West is therefore the symbolic, organizational, and operational representation of this new world to be built. It is structured around Societal Economic Interest Groups, networks of societal diplomacy, and transnational politico-societal blocs. It is the result of a long process of conceptualization, experimentation, and storytelling. It is a forward-looking vision that gradually materializes through on-the-ground projects in pilot locations such as Torreblanca, Castellón in Spain, as well as in France, Cameroon, Morocco, India, Greece, Brazil, and many other regions. Faced with the latent collapse of our civilization, with growing anomie, the destruction of ecosystems, and the loss of meaning, I propose a path of reconstruction. Not a mimetic reconstruction of old models, but a profound reinvention of how we are, live together, produce, and transmit. EL4DEV is an invitation to a renaissance. The Green Empire of the East and the West is its banner, its structuring dream, its driving utopia. It is not about fleeing reality but reshaping it through a collective, joyful, rigorous, and transcendent work. I am fully committed to this mission. My work is simultaneously intellectual, artistic, strategic, and entrepreneurial. My goal is to gather, equip, and catalyze the vital forces of all nations. I offer methods, tools, narratives, social architectures, and concrete infrastructures to transform resignation into agency, fear into creativity, isolation into community. EL4DEV is a living and evolving process, open to all those who wish to build a new society after the collapse. The Green Empire of the East and the West is its inspiring horizon.