Tropiques toxiques

TROPIQUES TOXIQUES

Toxic Tropics

• Publishing Company:

  STEINKIS GROUPE / JUNGLE

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  JESSICA OUBLIE (STORY)

  NICOLA GOBBI (ART)

• Number of Pages:

  240

• Cover price:

  Euro 23.00

• Publication Date:

  October 2022

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  ENVIRONMENT, NATURE, SUSTAINABILITY, POLLUTION,

• Summary:

  The banana. One of the main flagships of the economy of the French West Indies, Guadeloupe and Martinique. To ensure its performance, a pesticide with a particular name – chlordecone – was used very widely there between 1972 and 1993. Today, prostate cancer is growing exponentially there. And the molecule is present in the bodies of the 800,000 people who live there. Environmental scandal? Sanitary? Or state?

  Debates on this molecule regularly generate passion and opposition in the press: politicians, banana producers, researchers, lawyers and civil society actors. If the question of responsibility must still be decided in court, the West Indians must resolve an equally essential question: how to live in a forever polluted environment?