{"id":810431,"date":"2023-10-25T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.castalie.com/?post_type=castalie_presse&#038;p=810431"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:43:59","slug":"castalie-thibault-lamarque-defi-plastique-france-inter","status":"publish","type":"castalie_presse","link":"https://www.castalie.com/presse/castalie-thibault-lamarque-defi-plastique-france-inter/","title":{"rendered":"« L&rsquo;humanité a soif et les baleines boivent la tasse » : le cri d&rsquo;alerte de Thibault Lamarque sur France Inter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-810432\" style=\"width:485px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture.jpg 1017w, https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture-509x800.jpg 509w, https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture-254x400.jpg 254w, https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture-768x1208.jpg 768w, https://www.castalie.com/en/app/uploads/2026/06/couverture-976x1536.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\"></figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Radio France Inter — </strong>“Chroniques littorales” program · October 25, 2023 · Feature by José-Manuel Lamarque, with Mathilde Munos</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his literary program <em>*Chroniques littorales*</em> on France Inter, José-Manuel Lamarque hosts Thibault Lamarque, founder of Castalie, to discuss his essay <em>*L’humanité a soif et les baleines boivent la tasse</em>*. Presented as a manifesto, the book sounds the alarm about water as a finite resource and plastic pollution in the oceans. The conversation blends personal observations, educational insights, and a call to action, without succumbing to doomsday scenarios.</p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading bsab4s-toc-content__target\" id=\"a-retenir\"><strong>Key takeaways</strong></h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Published by Novice, the essay <em>*Humanity Is Thirsty and the Whales Are Drowning*</em> is a short, practical manifesto born of the observations of a water professional with twenty years of experience.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 2022 heat wave served as a catalyst: it convinced Thibault Lamarque, the author, that he needed to alert the general public to the end of the illusion of an infinite water supply.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The book emphasizes the central role of agriculture in the use and quality of water resources, presenting farmers as key agents of change.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The author points out that in France, 16 billion single-use bottles are consumed each year, of which only about half are recycled, with the rest being incinerated, landfilled, or lost.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>The title, which is deliberately tinged with humor, reflects a conscious choice: to offer a book of solutions and explanations rather than a text designed to make readers feel guilty, in the vein of a manifesto like Stéphane Hessel’s <em>*Time for Outrage</em> *.</li>\n\n\n\n<li>Filtering tap water at the point of use, rather than transporting it in bottles over hundreds of kilometers, is one of the practical approaches to reducing both single-use plastic and the transportation footprint that the book advocates. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Source: </strong> France Inter, “Chroniques littorales,” October 25, 2023 — a segment by José-Manuel Lamarque. <a href=\"https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/chroniques-littorales/chroniques-littorales-du-mercredi-25-octobre-2023-5738106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the original broadcast</a><br/></em></p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"></p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio France Inter — “Chroniques littorales” program · October 25, 2023 · A segment by José-Manuel Lamarque, with Mathilde Munos In his literary segment “Chroniques littorales” on France Inter, José-Manuel Lamarque welcomes Thibault Lamarque, founder of Castalie, to discuss his essay *L’humanité a soif et les baleines boivent la tasse*. 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