Étienne Davodeau walked for 800 km, from the Pech-Merle cave, in the Lot, to Bure, in the Meuse, with a backpack, a tent and a precise starting point: compare the splendid drawings of horses and bison that the
Homo sapiens
of 25,000 and 30,000 years ago
bequeathed to the
nuclear waste that we plan to bury in Bure when, according to him, it will be harmful for 100,000 years.
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Meeting with Étienne Davodeau, meticulous explorer of our daily life
This journey and the drawn story he drew from it are therefore deliberately partisan: the author says it and accepts it.
Telling this long walk in the beautiful landscapes of France, to the slow rhythm of the
Homo sapiens
of yesteryear which only uses its two legs, it is his way of demonstrating against the inconsistency and the excesses of our societies.
Over the days, Davodeau summons specialists from various disciplines to support his point.
An agronomist, a semiologist and a former engineer at the Atomic Energy Commission, Bernard Laponche, who became a trade union activist after
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