World Without EndChristophe Blain, Jean-Marc Jancovici
World Without End
by Christophe Blain, Jean-Marc Jancovici · first published 2023
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…population and GDP, we are left with optimizing energy and emission intensity. I just finished this comic book by Jancovi which explains all this and it is very easy to read. https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...
on “Ask HN: Why aim for reducing climate change?” ↗…to horses because it is nicer, I am just saying that we are facing a big energy problem), I would encourage you to read this book, which was a huge success in France last year: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb... Written by a true expert, Jean-Marc Jancovici. Just check who he is, usually engineers like him, even if they don't like the conclusion (which is that engineers tend to be part…
on “Full ignition for ESA’s reusable rocket engine” ↗…looking at the numbers, it appears that we can't reasonably hope to replace fossil fuels entirely. Hence we have to use less energy, hence we have to degrow. I hardly advise reading https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb..., that's from a well-known french engineer.
on “Climate Change Tracker” ↗…recommend his book, which explains his ideas really well. Probably works better if you know Europe a bit, but I think that the English edition is modified a bit for US citizen: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...
on “Climate Change Tracker” ↗…read it seriously. Now in all fairness, if you share with me the title of a serious book that explains why degrowth is "arrogant and stupid", I commit to reading it. Do we have a deal? My choice is "World without end" (in French: "Le monde sans fin"): https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...
on “Climate Change Tracker” ↗…work, we're screwed, so we have to believe in it". It merely extrapolates from the growth of solar in the last few years. That is not enough. My turn to suggest a different view: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Blain-Christophe-eb...
on “Climate Change Tracker” ↗…civilisation to collapse soon. Luckily, the solution to all of those 3 problems is the same: cut down emissions, do less with less. A good introduction to the problem, I find, is here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Illustrated-Climate...
on “NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon” ↗…Cultures of Plague: Medical Thought At the End of the Renaissance Philip Ziegler: The Black Death Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron there are some fictional works that I enjoyed such as Ken Follet World Without End (should be read after Pillars of the Earth IMO) and it's probably not enough on-topic for what you're asking.
on “Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up” ↗…France’s best known climate expert sat down to work with its most feted graphic novelist. The result? Perhaps the most terrifying comic ever drawn. Part history, part analysis, part vision for the future, World Without End weaves the story of humanity’s rapacious appetite for fossil fuel energy, how it has made possible the society people take for granted, and its disastrous effects on the climate. Among French readers…
on “Anti-fossil fuel comic that went viral in France arrives in UK” ↗> The single source you’ve put forward, World Without End, doesn’t support your assertions. Clearly you haven't read it, have you?
on “NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon” ↗