Used book – The Titanic Syndrome, Nicolas Hulot

The days of the world as we know it are numbered. Like the passengers of the Titanic, we rush into the dark night dancing and laughing, with the selfishness and arrogance of superior beings convinced that they are "masters of themselves as well as of the universe."

And yet, the warning signs of the shipwreck are accumulating: a series of climate disruptions, omnipresent pollution, exponential extinction of animal and plant species, anarchic plundering of resources, multiplication of health crises. We act as if we were alone in the world and the last generation of humans to inhabit this Earth: after us, the deluge?

Nicolas Hulot has traveled our planet across all latitudes. No one knows better than him: it is a confined space, with precarious balances. This book is a final cry of alarm before giving in to despair: if all of us, rich and poor alike, do not immediately change our behavior to "do more with less" and put ecology at the center of our individual and collective decisions, we will all sink together.

We must be in solidarity with life and with the future: Nicolas Hulot has become the passionate and tireless messenger of this warning, from the Johannesburg summit to his village school, from the gilded paneling of the Élysée Palace to the farms of Brittany and Lorraine. "I was not born an environmentalist," he tells us, "I became one." And we too can, we must, become one.

The Titanic Syndrome is an essential book, to be read urgently. With Nicolas Hulot, we will no longer be able to say that we did not know.