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Land law or the toxic legacy of nuclear waste

2021-10-16T05:22:03.095Z


LA CASE BD - Étienne Davodeau retraces the link between the rock paintings of Pech Merle and the Bure site where the burial of nuclear waste is planned, the radioactivity of which will take 100,000 years to dissipate. An edifying and poetic stroll.


Alone, heavy backpack screwed to his shoulders, in the middle of forests and mountains far from the urban frenzy, Étienne Davodeau walks. In

Le Droit du sol

, the author of Les

Ignorants

recounts a journey of 800 kilometers and wonders: “

More and more concerned about our relationship to the ground, I left a cave adorned with Pech Merle in the Lot to join Bure in the Meuse. On the one hand, magnificent drawings left by our ancestors and on the other a town where we are preparing to bury nuclear waste. I try to put that in resonance by traversing my 800 kilometers. The transmission defines the two limits of my ballad: what we have been transmitted and what we are going to transmit ”

, explains the designer.

Étienne Davodeau retraced the line that separates these two limits.

Meetings, scientific insights, dizzying landscapes ... This keen observer of our time takes us behind the scenes of nuclear history, challenges the reader, makes us share the physical and psychological sensations of man who reconnects with nature :

“Soil, an organic and mineral fusion, is a unique element in the universe.

It is fragile and on it depends our food and our survival

.

The idea is to return to my original state of Sapiens, and to go and seek that contact.

While walking, I leave the asphalt roads, I sleep under the stars, I go to look for the ground in the most concrete sense of the term. "

Ode to walking

Comic strip report,

Le Droit du sol is

teeming with captivating explanations. Why bet on nuclear power for a few decades of energy? How to deal with its highly toxic waste? What are the limits of science in terms of ecology? How does the soil ensure our survival? The author has assembled a prestigious round of scientists to enlighten the reader, although some questions remain unanswered ... Who can comment on the next 100.00 years.

The Law of the soil

does not, however, feed on a single documentary approach.

The book also offers an intimate dive into the physical and psychological feelings of a man who reconnects with nature via a walk of 800 kilometers.

Fatigue, moments of ecstasy or overwhelm, whims of the weather, magical bivouacs under starry skies ... He explores all the sensations of his physical journey.

A true ode to walking, which the reader goes through with a delicious empathy.

And a desire to experience the virtues of a timeless stroll.

Off the beaten track.

The BD box: decryption of Étienne Davodeau

"

In the middle of France, all alone, I eat apricots and it becomes an enchanted parenthesis in a blazing day, a break in 800 kilometers of trekking

" Étienne Davodeau / Futuropolis

“This board relates an exceptional moment of my walk through France. It is located at the end of the crossing of the Massif Central after eight days of walking in the mountains where I mainly eat freeze-dried products that are not very tasty. I made my first hours of walking in the valley, towards the Allier, It is very hot, I am tired, and I enter a village where a market offers me the sight of huge juicy apricots. A totally innocuous and derisory miracle that gives me a kind of lack of fresh produce. I buy myself a bag of ten apricots and look for the place worthy of this royal dish. We're talking about ten apricots! After a few hours of walking, suddenly I walk along a river and the moment is there. Not much is happening, Itake off my shoes, put my bag down, and eat my apricots with my feet in the river. A moment of absolute well-being and plenitude. The right time, in the right place. For me, this board illustrates the praise of the modest thing. In the middle of France, all alone, I eat apricots and it becomes an enchanted parenthesis in a blazing day, a break in 800 kilometers of trekking. And I know this moment is going to be a big part of my story. A moment that I will keep in mind for the rest of my life.I eat apricots and it becomes an enchanted parenthesis in a blazing day, a break in 800 kilometers of trekking. And I know this moment is going to be a big part of my story. A moment that I will keep in mind for the rest of my life.I eat apricots and it becomes an enchanted parenthesis in a blazing day, a break in 800 kilometers of trekking. And I know this moment is going to be a big part of my story. A moment that I will keep in mind for the rest of my life.

"We must face the facts, we are definitely linked to this planet Earth, and it is time to take care of it"

Etienne Davodeau

Beyond the anecdote, I evoke our dependence on nature, the soil and the planet, central subject of the book. I go to Bure where they are about to bury highly toxic waste that will be dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. I then oppose this bag of apricots to Bure's nuclear waste. And this healthy river. For me this opposition makes sense. When Elon Musk claims to colonize Mars, he embodies ultraliberal consumption in the most carnivorous sense of the term: we have saturated the earth, we are in the process of ruining it and we are going to start over elsewhere. Fortunately it is technically unfeasible, we will not go. We must face the facts, we are definitely linked to this planet Earth, and it is time to take care of it.

My goal is also to translate the feeling that I mix with more scientific explanations. These two dimensions nourish my will. A mammoth designed 22,000 years ago, harmful radioactivity for 100,000 years, the poisoned gift that we will leave to future generations in Bure, the 800-kilometer walk… All of this is vertigo. A vertigo that I also wanted to apprehend through sensory intoxication. Walking is within everyone's reach and I invite readers to practice it to rediscover fundamental sensations. It is a kind of solidarity with the person who drew this mammoth who had very different relationships to comfort and to his body from ours.

Regarding the graphics, I recomposed in my workshop sequences, meetings on the basis of feelings experienced, notes or photos that I had taken during my journey.

A whole magma which formed the raw material of the work.

So some landscapes are suggested, here I created a more elaborate board, more swarming with details, with a play on light, evoking the passage from the intense clarity associated with the dodger to a cool and providential shade.

Thus, the reader can also take the time to explore the board… to take a break. ”

Source: lefigaro

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