Anticipation novel
Meadows — Tome I — Dérèglement climatique
English subtitle: Climate Overshoot
Independently published
Paris, September 2035: the water truck goes dry at Porte de la Chapelle. Fifty years after the Meadows Report, the limit is no longer ahead of us — it is behind.
Porte de la Chapelle, 18 September 2035: forty-eight degrees in the shade, a dry water truck and four hundred residents waiting for their ration. Sarah Keller, a technical coordinator, understands that day that the Meadows Report was never a prophecy — it was a timetable. Fifty years on, the thresholds have been crossed, the commons have thinned, and governments struggle to decide.
From Paris to Tokyo, from Aisha, an economist, to Kuroda, a nuclear engineer, to Naoko, a soil biologist, a generation rediscovers a simple truth: neither the market nor force will be enough to hold together a finite world. The answer, perhaps, lies in the commons.