THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2024* "Can a
graphic novel save the planet? Perhaps." - Elizabeth Kolbert Is this the end of the world?
Perhaps not. In this eye-opening hopeful and hugely entertaining bestseller a climate
expert takes a leading graphic novelist on a journey to understand the profound changes that
our planet is undergoing. The scientist Jean-Marc Jancovici walks us through just about
everything: from the innermost workings of our minds to toothbrushes office jobs and oil
ancient history and modern geopolitics economics and ecology the unfolding climate crisis and
its consequences for us all. As he describes the world we live in - a world whose future is
deeply uncertain - the artist Christophe Blain listens and draws. Coming face to face with
global warming the unlikely duo - along with Mother Nature Pop Eye and Jiminy Cricket among
others - create a picture of what the solution to our predicament actually looks like. Yes we
have a fossil-fuel problem but simply switching to renewable energy won't fix it. We can and
must rethink everything: our energy supply our economies and our whole world. They leave us
with an inspiring vision of the future in which food education housing transport and
communities - in other words all of us - work together and with a few technological fixes
succeed in creating a world without end. "Masterful and unforgettable... A testament to the
power of the graphic novel" - Marjane Satrapi author of Persepolis "READ. THIS. BOOK. " -
Eliza Griswold Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Over 1 million copies sold since publication
The Guardian October 2024
