The heist of the millennium

This is a book that must be read. Even if it means coming out bubbling with anger – but a holy anger, informed and not fomented by social networks. Doctor in environmental sciences, teacher at the Catholic University of the West, Nathanaël Wallenhorst set out to describe what the lives of Europeans will look like in twenty years if we do not significantly change our ways of producing and consuming.

Because until now we have only experienced “gentle” climate change, progressing in a linear fashion, like a balloon which inflates proportionally to the air blown in. But if you insist too much, the balloon bursts. This is the case, he explains, with the “Earth system”.

A few thousand tonnes of excess CO2 or methane, and several tipping points will be crossed, leading us into another reality: food shortages following the collapse of agricultural production; increase in cancers as well as mental and infectious diseases; skyrocketing rise in social violence… Damn!

It is no longer the planet that must be saved, but our civilization. A much more precious treasure than the one stolen from the Louvre, but whose sneaky theft by this bandit that is climate change arouses, unfortunately, less emotion… From COP30, which will end on November 21, 2025 in Brazil, to the French Parliament, we look forward to courageous decisions to prevent the millennium heist.