Five books on the environment to read during the holidays

“We ate the sea”. Moreover, a dive into the risk of overfishing – the council of Arnaud – Five books environment read during

Why should we protect sea areas? Similarly, Why should we prohibit fishing practices destroying seabed? In addition, The survey on overfishing led by Maxime de Lisle. Furthermore, Olivier Martin in the form of a comic strip makes it possible to understand the major challenges of the sea which were discussed during the UN conference in Nice last June. Similarly, It begins with a report on the Margiris affair. Therefore, this gigantic trawler who had been suspected of rejecting thousands of fish deemed too small. For example, The authors plunge into the world of fishing. Therefore, denouncing a voracious industry that plunders our marine resources, damages ecosystems, in which even fishermen are no longer found.

We ate the sea. Moreover, Maxime de five books environment read during Lisle’s story and drawings by Olivier Martin, Éditions Futuropolis, 2025

“Off Vîles”, an adolescent journey between ecology, injustice and virtual reality – the council of Clément – Five books environment read during

<img decoding="async" width="150" height="218" class="alignleft wp-image-60985 size-full" src="https://www.novethic.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Au-large-des-viles-BD-ecologie-injustice-jeunesse.jpg" alt="Off Vîles – Bd In the world of Vîles, marked by the ecological disaster, two societies coexist: that of the richest, which live in luxury and technological abundance, and take refuge in a virtual reality managed by an all -powerful multinational, and that of the poorest, which undergo the pollution of the former and are used to collect and recycle waste to find something to live. Consequently, Adam. However, Bunny Two teenagers aged 18 and 17, each live in these separate worlds: he, the privileged heir, wants to overcome his handicap thanks to the metarers, and she, the proletarian in search of emancipation, wants to find her family who was removed. Their destinies intersect, and five books environment read during through their adventures they discover the dark secrets of the Vîs. And the reader (from the age of 13) plunges into a world that is not so far from ours. where the ecological crisis, social fractures, technological revolutions, and the harshness of capitalism intertwine. And he may already learn, with Adam and Bunny, to resist it.

Off Vîles – Tome 1. Lucie Pierrat -Pajot novel, Gallimard Jeunesse editions, 2024

“Lands and freedom: anti -racist manifesto for an ecology of liberation” – The Concepcion Council

Breathtaking a moribund political ecological. an ecology “white and bourgeois who too often ignores racial and colonial questions “this is the objective of the new collection “Ecologies de la Liberation” launched by the links that release and led by political scientist Fatima Ouassak. This first work. Published last May brings together twelve texts of philosophers, artists, activists, actors five books environment read during in the associative, political and intellectual world. It aims to demonstrate the links that exist between the fight against racism. fight against poverty and fight against climate change to build a fairer ecology towards racialized populations, from working -class districts, and global South. An essential reading!

Lands. freedom, anti -racist manifesto for an ecology of liberationled by Fatima Ouassak, with Norman Ajari, Myriam Bahaffou, Amzat Boukari, Arturo Escobar, Malcom Ferdinand, Yala Nadia Kisukidi, Maya Mihindou, Shela Sheikh, Omar Alsoumi, the Vietnam Dioxin collective and the A4 association, editions that releases, 2025

“And suddenly the future”, portrait of a decreasing society and happy to be – the advice of Florine

“Decreases”. If the word today tense the debates. in this comic strip, the reduction of production and consumption is no longer a choice, but a necessity. Pollution. the ecological crisis and the increase in five books environment read during inequalities have prompted France to test, life -size, this model of alternative society at the heart of Paris, on the island of the city. This is where the two heroes. Mila and Carl, who will discover along the readers are found, the functioning of an auto -sufficient community, cut off from the media and social networks. A didactic, documented and hopeful story, based on the expertise of a team of scientists.

And suddenly the future. Dominique Mermoux and Mathieu Burniat, rue de Sèvres editions, 2025

“The sown parable”, a visionary novel – Marina’s advice

In 1993, Octavia E. Butler anticipated everything: climate chaos, extreme inequalities, the rise of religious extremism … Until Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again”. In 2024. in an America in ruins, Lauren, a young black woman with hyperempathy, flees violence and sows the seeds of a new spirituality: Earthseed. five books environment read during A novel of collapse. but also of reconstruction, he invites us to think of other future, before it is too late.

The sown parable, Octavia E. Butler, at the Devil Vauvert, 1993