‘Humus’ is a work by the philosopher Galo Gaspard Koenig whose protagonists are worms; Animals as the same author explains are essential to guarantee life on earth. “Without worms there would be no life on earth, because they form the basis for the life cycle, where death becomes life again,” says the philosopher.
This new work starts with a teacher who spends on all the progress and challenges given in the discipline of geodrilology: the science responsible for studying the earthworms. And does this accompanied by two young agronomical students.
From the point of view of the environment, the philosopher believes that the most important thing today is to consider the disappearance of biodiversity. «We lose 65 % of the insects And of the birds very dizzy, because we destroy natural evolution in fifty years, “he recalls.
Humus, the new novel by Gaspard Koening in which he warns of the importance of worms for life on earth
For personal curiosity, digging in his garden, the French philosopher Gaspard Koenig began to read about worms and make notes about these animals that have a great weight in their latest novel, ‘Humus’, an editorial phenomenon in his country, finalist of Goncourt and the Renaudot, and with whom he won the Interallié, Transuge and Jean Giono Awards.
In an interview, Koenig did not hesitate on Thursday that «without wormThere would be no life on earth, “and emphasized that they” are the basis of the life cycle, where death becomes life again. “
“If someone is interested in it,” he continues, “is fascinating, because there are thousands of different species, with different behaviors that create in the landlabyrinths, pyramids, without having a scent or scent, only functioning with touch, are Hermaphrodites, a fascinating sexuality, in a sort of very sense of the genes.”
Few novels start when ‘humus’ does, with a teacher who spends on the progress and challenges in geodrilology, the science of earthworms, with two young students of the Agronomy listening to the expert, the only person from Charles Darwin who has calculated the total weight of the Lombrimix on the planet earth.
Published by Seix Barral, the work, in which humor is not clear, stars two extravagant types, Kevin and Arthur, who are sadly saddened by the environmental crisis, are intended to change the world with different methods, the contrasts of the current era, the collision between the countryside and the city, the class of class.
Gaspard Koenig, who lives in Paris and the countryside, notes that he wanted to write a novel with regard to ecology and worm They were a “good pretext” to enter this area.
The role of worms in the care of the planet
With Michel de Montaigne, the maximum reference, he believes that he has armed a story, and therefore his success, in which everything is “open, explore different options”.
“It is not a moralistic book, nor in which it is assessed, nor blames someone, but gives information, shows the obstacles that are there and each can make their choice, even with the two main characters,” he said.
He also thinks that the novel allows us to contrast the neorrals with the elites of the city, without «good or bad, without heroes, because people are all the same, although with with different circumstances and sociologies ».
Koenig is van mening dat de meest dringende nu de verdwijning van de biodiversiteit is om in te voeren in het zesde massa -uitsterven, omdat we 65 % van de insecten en vogels zeer duizelig verliezen, omdat in vijftig jaar d DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd losses, lossesWe press between five and ten million years of natural evolution«.
It also warns that there are “large transnational movements”, which “clearly deny” the problem with a “rejection” of ecology, either in Argentina, the United States or “even in the European Parliament.”
In any case, the writer notes that humans are a recent species in natural evolution and “all types of mutan, which may not disappear, but we will not be the case in thousands of years.” “For us it is important to think about whether or not this civilization is maintained, but on the scale of what life is there is nothing dramatic or apocalyptic,” he said.
The biodiversity hidden on the ground
When demanding artificial intelligence, there is no doubt by claiming that those who lead it, look at heaven: “They are those who want to go to Mars, send satellites, return to the moon, all linked to the cosmos, but perhaps they should look more at the earth, at what is under their feet.”
In the past 2500 years there have been very few thinkers who have been in abundance in this idea with those of the ‘theology of heaven, of heavenly pleasures’.
This has currently behaved that Only 1 % of the species that live on the ground are knownwhen “In a tablespoon we have 10,000 million years, an incredible, abundant, exciting universe.”
Gaspard Koenig is in favor of transforming the imaginary of Science Fiction “based on intergalactic, laser beams or spacecraft and bringing it to the ground, much richer, funnant, fun, sensual and happy.”
On the point to publish in the Spanish ‘Agrophilosophy’, the theoretical version of ‘Humus’, will appear in January in France the second part of what you want is a tetralogy, ‘Aqua’, and then the novels will come on air and fire, the fundamental elements of nature. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM