"An inventory of the barbarism of this totalitarian industrial society in which we live."—Les Inrockuptibles

"Bodinat is the moralist of our time."—Le Nouvel Observateur

Defined in France as a "philosophical bombshell", this book is a radical critique of the artificialization of our lives written in beautiful and subtle prose.

Life on Earth is a denunciation of contemporary high-tech life, an inventory of the industrial barbarism of the society in which we live. Defined as a "philosophical bomb", Bodinat shows us in an elegant and subtle language the little future that modern times contain.

«Every morning we regain consciousness in a world a little narrower and more stale than the day before: the horizons narrow and we feel that their confusion closes in on us; the vault of heaven is a little more solidified by carbon dioxide, by air corridors, by hertzian waves. Every morning, when we open the window, we find that the world is still full of gigantic shops with their parking lots, motorway exits, data banks, rotten household waste; a little more cluttered with security cameras, ATMs that address us firsthand, specialized television channels, mutagenic fungicides, heavy metals, herpes, breast cancer, intestinal bleeding; Every morning we resurrect a world stained with fuel that is left without trees and dries up, in which typhoons lose their way to nature in decrepit and ruined temperate zones, in which mass tourism charter flights shatter the ozone of the stratosphere, in which the computerized trawlers compete between the plastics and all the floating crap of the modern future made true by the last bluefin tuna located via satellite. Every morning we wake up in a world that most of them have only known for these days without distances, without terrestrial space ahead and for many years and in which nothing has been inscribed yet.