World Without End

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2024*“Can a graphic novel save the planet? Perhaps.� – Elizabeth KolbertIs 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 journalistOver 1 million copies sold since publication The Guardian October 2024