World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis

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Martin’s books, on the other hand, exist in a land of his own creation. There are fire-breathing dragons, the Red God, decades-long winters, and White Walkers who implacably roam the Earth. Martin’s novels are fantasies; they take place in a land that never existed. Ainsi, il y a quelques années, la disponibilité des métaux pour "la transition" (voitures électriques + réseaux électriques + solaire et éolien) avait été questionnée par une note en petits caractères dans un tableau du corps du rapport, avant de devenir un message bien plus central ensuite.

In 1327, these four children slip away from the confines of Kingsbridge and play in the forest, a dangerous activity forbidden to them by their parents. But who among us hasn't ignored a prohibition like that at one time or another? When, to their horror, they witness a killing that they cannot understand, their lives become inextricably entwined together and it is not until many, many years later that any of them will understand the dark motives behind the brutal event in the forest that unfolded before them that day. World Without End is a best-selling 2007 novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is the second book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth. The novel begins in the fictional city of Kingsbridge, England in the year 1327. Four children - Merthin, Caris, Gwenda, and Merthin's brother Ralph - head into the woods on All Hallows Day. Together the children witness two men-at-arms killed in self-defence by Sir Thomas Langley, aided by Ralph. The children then flee, with the exception of Merthin, who helps the wounded Sir Thomas bury a letter with instructions to dig up and deliver it if and when Sir Thomas should die. After this Sir Thomas flees to Kingsbridge and seeks refuge in the monastery and becomes a Benedictine monk, while the four children swear never to speak of what they saw. ...Dans ce cas, peut être que des liens (ou un QR code en fin d’ouvrage menant vers des liens) avec des statistiques, un consensus scientifique, ce genre de chose, aurait été pertinent.

Malgré 120 minutes de prévues, certains questions "qui grattent un peu" n'ont pu être qu'effleurées, comme par exemple : For those readers who have read the first book of this series you will find pretty much the same content as has gone before.

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Où sont les syndicats de salariés dans "la transition" ? Nulle part, diraient certains : ils doivent défendre les salariés où qu'ils soient, qu'ils fassent de la pub pour des grosses voitures ou posent de l'isolation par l'extérieur avec des matériaux bio-sourcés. What have I to complain about? This is one of those rare occasions when more of the same isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And the sense of familiarity also helped to solidify that this is actually the same location, Kingsbridge, just a few centuries later. Instead of focusing on building a new cathedral, after the dramatic burning down of the first one, the citizens are focusing on re-building the town bridge after the other was destroyed by a stampede of angry witch burners. And here’s one of the things Follett does better this time round: he explores more social issues regarding femininity with greater depth. Ken’s new book, The Evening and the Morning, will be published in September 2020. It is a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth and is set around the year 1,000, when Kingsbridge was an Anglo-Saxon settlement threatened by Viking invaders.

la sobriété fait consommer moins, et engendre fatalement de produire moins. A priori ce n'est pas terrible pour l'emploi et/ou les revenus ; comment avancer avec ça ? Set two centuries after Pillars of the Earth, the people of Kingsbridge are at it again. The cathedral built in Pillars is in disrepair after part of the roof caved in, the bridge collapsed, and the prior is dead. Also, the constant maneuvering continues... Le sujet est de circonstances avec les incendies “monstres” des derniers jours, mais j’ai commencé Le monde sans fin du talentueux dessinateur Christophe Blain qui s’était fait connaître avec les désopilants Quais d’Orsay qui relatait, toute en imagination bien sûr, son expérience ministérielle auprès de Dominique de Villepin lors de son passage comme ministre des Affaires Etrangères, accompagné de l’expert Jean-Mars Jancovici qui tranche dans les débats actuels sur la catastrophe climatique, par son ton posé, voire un poil cynique, et surtout son approche argumentée et compréhensible.En effet, la formation est une "réaction en chaîne" : un premier noyau de personnes "qui savent" va former un deuxième cercle plus élargi, au sein duquel une partie des gens pourront former un troisième cercle, etc. It is interesting to consider the nearly 20 years between the first book and this sequel. Many things have changed in our culture since then, leading Follett to inject even more egregious anachronisms into this book than the first. For example, the characters at one point fret over the self-esteem of a teenage girl. There are many further examples but I will spare you. I also enjoyed reading about the politics of the church. There was definitely more corruption in World Without End than there was in The Pillars of the Earth. Of course, the fact that The Pillars of the Earth's main character was a humble and worthy prior may have something to do with that. Though the technical things slowed me a little bit. Also I found some repetition (comparing the first and the second books) which reduced my fangirlism in some way, like: two brothers- one good and one bad. The good one is a great builder, not a great fighter, he has difficulties to reach the popularity, but after some time abroad he becomes skilled and famous. The bad one gets a bad end of course. The life long love of the main character suffers some hardship and creates something new in business. Blain has twice received the award for best graphic novel at the Angoulême Comics Festival, for the first volume of "Isaac the Pirate" (in 2002) and for volume two of "Quai d'Orsay" (in 2013), making him one of the few authors to have won this distinction twice.

CARIS: It’s simple. You just need to do this obvious thing, this obvious thing, and this obvious thing. After more than loving The Pillars of the Earth ( that’s right, I lurved it), I had tall hopes for this sorta sequel and let me tell you it was more than up to the task. Don’t look for the good guys to always win out, and the bad guys to fail in World Without End because, like real life, this world does not reward those who do good and punish those who do bad; it’s a harsh world that gives more opportunity to the survivors of the fittest. You must also remember that this is the fourteenth century, the time of the peasant and noble, a time where class distinction was at the most severe and was a defining character of every person. Though while there is all this suffering, one cannot help but think at some point it must get better for the characters you like, and worse for the characters you hate, and this is after all a novel, but don’t expect Follett to do anything you might predict.

La préoccupation de "fin du mois" étant majeure pour une fraction croissante de l'électorat, il est impératif que l'écologie ne soit pas vue par une large fraction de la population comme un "truc de riches contre le peuple" (ce qui est actuellement le cas : https://t.ly/iBi9F ). Seul problème : on ne peut pas se servir d'une version électronique pour caler des meubles une fois la lecture terminée... mais j'espère que ce petit inconvénient ne dissuadera pas les plus motivé(e)s ! C’est une BD qui vulgarise assez bien sur le nucléaire, l’éolien, la pollution, la surconsommation. Elle propose des solutions sans culpabiliser le lecteur. Et ça fait du bien dans cette société où on nous culpabilise pour tout. J’aime ce discours où on nuance, où on explique les avantages et inconvénients, où on propose de réfléchir et de se faire son avis. Sauf peut être sur la partie nucléaire, qui risque d’en faire tiquer plus d’un mais personnellement j’ai apprécié cette partie. J’ai aimé aussi les explications scientifiques sur le nucléaire. The story concerns the denizens of Kightsbridge. The hardships of the peasants, the trials and tribulations of the merchants, the privileged lives of the aristocracy and the dominance of the church over everyone and everything.