INTERVIEW.- The engineer publishes a comic strip about the limited resources of our planet. He considers illusory the promises of Silicon Valley billionaires and other “cornacupians” who think that in the future we will be able to maintain economic growth while ensuring the ecological transition.
Can economic growth be infinite in a finite world? Will we be able to maintain our current way of life in the centuries to come? Is the economy really becoming dematerialized? Will recycling save humanity? It is this major question that the engineer Philippe Bihouix and the designer Vincent Perriot tackle in their comic strip Resources, a challenge for humanity (Casterman). It invites us to adopt a logic of low-tech and techno-discernment in order to enter an age of sobriety. Educational and fascinating.
LE FIGARO.- You devote a comic strip to the question of resources. Why do you think this question is central and perhaps too hidden today?
Philippe BIHOUIX.- The future availability of resources is an old debate: in the 19the century, we are already worried about the exhaustion of coal mines! In the 1950s to 1970s, in a context of demographic growth…
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