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6 glass jars containing stones from 5 continents and deciduous teeth,
each jar with 22 cm height, 13 cm diameter and interconnected by a chain
surrounding a hive straw, placed on a bridge table ; dimensions 103 x H 77 x
L 77 h Originally, the 5 continents were assembled
just to form one: Pangea. Then, plate tectonics had caused their separation
and removal, that goes on. Today, our multipolar world has never been
so interdependent (migration, financial, goods, information, global
environmental impacts). This is the concept of polder world, developed by
Jared Diamond in his famous book "Collapse". In the future, will the world be empty of
man as this hive? The goal of humanity is development, at least for
increasing life expectancy. However, the number of children per woman
decreases with increasing development. It decreases to be less than two;
therefore, the children no longer replace the previous generation, humanity
would be condemned to disappear because of development humanity created... Jars and hive are laid on a bridge table,
global financial games have taken so much on our systems. Yet the future of
humanity will depend on the values that men would like to
defend. Glass jars contain stones instead of food;
stones and life give life to soils, essential for agricultural production and
our life. The soils are not renewable in human scale: we must take great care
of them, because on the bare rock, released by erosion, nothing grows. When you travel around the world, the
stones are the common link: everywhere the same geological families are unlike
fauna, flora, language, culture which can be so different. Diversity on a
common substratum. All the world's children lose their milk
teeth. All the milk teeth are similar, regardless of the colour of the skin
of children. Geology and humanity are constant. Never in its history, man has received so
many images, so much information. But digital is so perishable that it will remain
nothing from all this production. Is it the reason why we want to fill our
homes, our hearts and our lives with objects, gods and
others? A hive of straw (traditional model), empty,
witnesses the memory that will be left by men. Moreover, "if the bees disappeared
from the surface of the earth, man would have only four more years to
live", attributed to Einstein (who would have delivered this quote 40
years after his death ...). Staying in the physics, note that everything
is empty between the star and its planets, between the nucleus and electrons,
between atoms of a molecule. But the planet Earth had been enduring
other disasters: marine fossils at the top of the Himalayas, the sea once in
the Paris basin, etc. Earth will survive long after us. This is not an
ecological concern that inspires us but rather a feeling of egology in front of threats against mankind and created
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