No pude pasar del primer 20% del libro. Y eso que el trabajo es de gran calidad. El problema es que el contenido no se adapta al formato cómic. Este es un libro cuyo contenido estaría mejor presentado en un ensayo breve. Para mí, el cómic se construye gracias a la interacción entre imagen y texto. En este libro la imagen no aporta nada. Se limita a ser el relleno de una viñeta en la cual lo importante es el texto presentado en los recuadros. Me aburrí muchísimo. He leído otras críticas que dicen que luego mejora y se encuentra uno ante un "verdadero" cómic. Espero que así sea, pero yo no tuve ganas de seguir.

A medio camino entre la novela gráfica, el ensayo autobiográfico y la investigación periodística, esta obra nos propone una mirada tan lúcida y crítica como comprometida sobre la realidad del calentamiento global. Una herramienta útil y una lectura fascinante.

GRAN PREMIO DEL JURADO EN EL FESTIVAL DE NOVELA GRÁFICA DE LYON

PREMIO DE LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA A LA DIFUSIÓN DE LOS VALORES MEDIOAMBIENTALES

graphic history/science, as related by a French writer. On the one hand, pretty good at explaining the science (what is true and what isn't so true) of climate change; on the other hand, an extremely bleak (though realistic and truthful) outlook for what that's going to mean for us in the coming decades/centuries.

This is certainly the most serious book I've read in the graphic format (understandably, there were many, many panels just of various scientists/experts sitting there talking), but certainly worth reading and one that I would encourage others to pick up. ( )

This book made me scared and apathetic pretty much all at once. Global warming is happening and we're pretty much screwed right now, unless we make very large and deep changes to the way we manufacture and consume, but there's no way that's going to happen with our current economic and political set-up so I guess all I can do is apologize to my children and grandchildren for the shitty world my generation is leaving them with. ( )

The first 25% of the book did nothing for me. It was a very dry recitation of the climate facts I already know, in graphic novel format. If you're the kind of person who gets most of your climate news from the newspaper, this section may be more informative or interesting for you. But at the 25% mark I put it down and almost didn't pick it up again. I had no real interest in reading 500 pages of climate science in graphic novel form.

I'm glad I did pick it up again, though (under pressure of a library returns deadline). Once the book gets into his own struggles with and reactions to that climate news, it developed more narrative push. There's still an awful lot of climate science--and interviews with experts in various political and social fields about the implications of that science for our reactions and in the 21st century--but there is also a story of his own acceptance of that information and the meaning it has for his own life, and how he reacts to it.

I don't agree with everything that he or his experts say, but it was credible and well-informed and thoroughly researched, and I enjoyed it. I even learned something new! which is not a given for me at this point with a climate book.

That being: Did You Know that even if the nuclear industry developed to its fullest extent, the total possible reduction it could make to global carbon emissions is around 6%? Not the silver bullet it's proclaimed to be. Interesting, no?

The art is exceptional, and there's a lot of visual metaphor and meaning packed into his choice of imagery.

Anyway. If you are interested in the climate change issue, want to be more informed about it, and find climate change books too dry to read, this is probably an excellent choice. I'd highly recommend it. ( )