Can this graphic novel change America’s views on climate? It did in France.

In France, you became popular for sharing information about climate change and energy—what we now might call an influencer. How and when did you take on this role?

By mere chance, basically. I was trained as an engineer. We were focused on telecommunications and IT, and that’s what I’d been doing for, let’s say 10-15 years, between the mid-80s and the late 90s. In the late ‘90s, I became very interested in the topic of climate change. I had no training in environmental sciences whatsoever. I had a background in physics and chemistry, but I didn’t learn anything about climate change during my studies.

But I was curious, I was an independent consultant, so it was easier for me to allocate my time. I decided to devote my time to studying climate change. I spent half my time sending questions to scientists.

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Eventually I was asked to give lectures and speak at conferences, which I began to do. And the best way to understand something is to give a course on it. So that’s what I did.

Each time I had a question during a conference to which I didn’t have the answer, I thought, ‘Ah, I should take a look at that.’