Baptiste Morizot
Baptiste Morizot is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille and a writer. His work, devoted to the relationship between humans and living beings, is based on field practices, notably wildlife tracking. He is the author of Les Diplomates. Cohabiter avec les loups sur une autre carte du vivant. A leading figure in the new philosophy of living, Baptiste Morizot has already published several works with Actes Sud in the "Mondes sauvages" collection, including Sur la piste animale, Manières d'être vivant and Alliance avec le peuple castor face au désert qui vient.
Suzanne Husky
Suzanne Husky's creative mixed-media practice focuses on the relationships between people, plants and the earth. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts, Suzanne Husky works and lives between the United States and France. She is also co-author of Alliance avec le peuple castor face au désert qui vient with Baptiste Morizot.
Alliance in the rivers in the face of climate chaos
With this book, Baptiste Morizot decided to investigate what he calls the "deep time" of rivers. On planet Earth, a living river is surrounded by wetlands that protect life. Yet we've taken these environments away from them to build our cities and industrial farms. Drained and concreted over, rivers can no longer protect us from a deregulated climate.
Faced with this foreseeable chaos, it's finally time to give water back to the earth, in an attempt to water the deserts that extractivism has left us as a legacy.
But how? How do we bring the water back to life? What if we put our trust in beavers? Beavers have been working for millions of years to hydrate the environment. Beavers slow water down, infiltrate it into the soil, purify it and share it with all living creatures. In this way, they create oases of life that can help us through droughts, fires and floods.
Hunted for centuries as a pest, can it now become an ally? Can the beaver inspire a philosophy of action free of the cult of oil, machinery and control? Can we learn from another animal how to heal rivers?
Returning water to the earth
- Author: Baptiste Morizot
- Illustrations: Suzanne Husky
- Publisher: Actes Sud
- Collection: Mondes sauvages
- Publication date: October, 2024
- Format: 16.00 x 24.00 cm
- Number of pages: 352
- Suggested retail price: ?28
