“Let’s just say it: for me this is the most important comic book of the year! Exit the last Asterix and his friends of One Piece commercial glory, Lucky Luke or Blake and Mortimer. If there is an album to buy and recommend according to Stéphane Godefroid, it is “Le Monde sans fin”. And we can only agree with the boss of La Parenthèse.
“Another book on ecology? ! ”, One might be surprised after the releases, which are also very recommendable, of“ Saison Brune ”(Squarzonni),“ Algues Vertes ”(Léraud and Van Hove) or recently“ Le Droit du Sol ”(Davodeau).
“Indeed, on environmental themes, militant, explanatory, journalistic albums, we have seen a lot of it lately”, confirms Stéphane Godefroid. “But they all focus more or less on one theme. While “The Endless World” succeeds in globalizing this problem of energy and the overconsumption that we make of it. “
Better still: the essayist Jancovici, engaged in the fight against global warming, has this rare intelligence to give the impression to his readers / listeners to be provided with it, too… The ability to make the very complex intelligible to all.
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And how many slaves will that be?
As proof, this way he has to convert the quantity of energy consumed by man to the number… of slaves needed to extract it. After all, as he himself points out, the slave is indeed “the only truly renewable resource.” But today, each landowner consumes the equivalent of what 200 slaves could produce. This sheds new light on things …
As for the designer, Christophe Blain, very noticed author of “Quay d’Orsay”, and exceptional guest at the bookstore on Friday, he puts himself on the stage in the middle of this self-devouring world. But he lands there as a fly of the boat as much as candid. In this way, we avoid, with humor, flexibility and elegance, the pitfall of the thoughtful presentation.
“Another asset, and not the least: apart from this comic, they have nothing to sell us. They just lay down the facts. And that’s more than enough to enlighten us. Until dizziness. Until dazzling us. In every sense of the term…
“The Endless World”, € 27. Dedication at La Parenthèse, cour des Arts, Nancy, this Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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