For a long time they preached in the desert. Their cries aimed to touch the hearts of men so that they change their habits, but also the brains of politicians, so that they redefine their priorities. Las. The four scientists who authored the Meadows report – renamed “Report 21” in “Cabane”, the novel by the Frenchman Abel Quentin – and the oceanographer Tony Pietrus – featured in “The Flood”, by the American Stephen Markley – failed to raise awareness of the consequences of unbridled growth, driven solely by profit, to the point of exhaustion of natural resources.
This is the starting point of these two novels, events of the literary season, which make the climate crisis a powerful narrative lever. An obsessive theme for these forty-year-old writers, who did not know each other before we brought them into dialogue.