Fabrice Erre has a Ph D in History and teaches Geography and History at the Lycee Jean Jaures near Montpellier France He has written a thesis on the satirical press writes the blog Une annee au lycee A Year in High School on the website of Le Monde one of France’s top national newspapers and has published several comics Sylvain Savoia draws the Marzi series which tells the history of Poland as seen through the eyes of a child He has also drawn Les esclaves oublies de Tromelin The Forgotten Slaves of Tromelin which won the Academie de Marine de Paris prize
ANOTHER EGG LOOK ANNIE AND ANOTHER NICO DON’T EAT THEM ALL AT ONCE BUT THE YARD’S FULL OF THEM SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM LIKE OIL JUST BE CAREFUL THAT’S ALL CHOCOLATE EGGS ARE A LOT LIKE OIL YEAH BECAUSE THERE’S SO MUCH OF IT PEOPLE WANT TO USE IT ALL UP BUT IT WON’T LAST FOREVER 3
CAN YOU FIND IT ON THE GROUND LIKE EGGS SOMETIMES YES AND WHEN YOU DO IT’S CALLED SEEPAGE BUT MOSTLY IT’S DEEP UNDERGROUND PEOPLE USED TO THINK THAT OIL CAME FROM ROCK AND SO THEY CALLED IT STONE OIL OR LIQUID ROCK BUT ACTUALLY IT’S MADE UP OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS THAT ENDED UP ON THE OCEAN FLOOR OVER TIME THEY GOT COVERED WITH SEDIMENT THAT’S TINY PARTICLES OF ROCK LIKE SAND WHICH ACTED LIKE A PRESSURE COOKER AND FORMED POCKETS OF OIL 4
SO IF WE PUT PLANTS AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR POND WILL THEY TURN INTO OIL THE PROCESS OF TURNING PLANTS INTO OIL TAKES MILLIONS OF YEARS iT STARTED LONG BEFORE HUMAN BEINGS EXISTED WELL THAT WOULD TAKE A VERY LONG TIME BUT IN JUST TWO HUNDRED YEARS WE’VE USED UP SO MUCH OF THIS BLACK GOLD THAT THERE COULD BE NONE LEFT BY THE END OF THIS CENTURY REALLY SO WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT IT SO MUCH 5
