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Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis

Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain's World Without End is a frenetic and funny take on global warming

By Madeleine Cuff

16 October 2024

World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

A page from World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain

World Without End
Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain
(Particular Books (UK, out 24 October); Zando (US, out 11 March 2025))

Ever wondered what your toothpaste has to do with the fossil fuel boom? Or how many Tour de France cyclists it would take to power a vacuum cleaner?

These might seem like flippant questions to ask in a book about global warming. But World Without End is no ordinary climate science book. Instead of pages of dense text and graphs, it…

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