Used book – Nouvelles histoires naturelles, Jean-Louis Etienne

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. By echoing Lavoisier's famous formula, Jean-Louis Etienne wants to make us aware that the planet and humanity have now lost their mutual understanding: "We have become super consumers and poor decomposers who gorge themselves excessively…"

How can we reintegrate the functioning of the Earth's ecosystem without life falling under the tutelage of an authority deemed unsustainable for the future of humanity? How can we satisfy the growing needs of a booming population while maintaining essential ecological balances? Through some twenty texts inspired by encounters or reflections – nuclear power, demographics, krill, microbes… – Jean-Louis Etienne explains how humanity and its ingenuity must reinvent their relationship with the Earth. An exciting challenge that can be considered the equation of the century.