After the success of his literary saga on ants, Bernard Werber is now passionate about cats.

The author publishes this Wednesday "The planet of cats", third volume of the adventures of the Bastet cat.

Invited on this occasion by Anne Roumanoff, the writer took the opportunity to deliver his vision of the future of our planet, already turned upside down by the Covid-19.

INTERVIEW

"They told us it was going to last three weeks, that was three years ago."

This sentence is the first of

Homo confinus

, the short story written by writer Bernard Werber during confinement.

A text available only online, unlike his new novel, 

The planet of cats

, published this Wednesday.

Guest of Anne Roumanoff and her band of chroniclers in 

It

feels

good

, the science-fiction author has let himself go to imagine what the planet might look like in a few years and the place that it would occupy. humanity, already shaken by the Covid-19.

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"Nothing will ever be the same" 

"Nothing will ever be the same", announces Bernard Werber, who does not necessarily see this transformation as something negative.

"We understood that when there is a 'ball' somewhere on the planet, the whole planet is dead," he observes.

According to the writer, we will therefore have to better organize ourselves at the planetary level to manage the health crises to come.

"In my opinion, the WHO (the World Health Organization) did not do its job when it should have. So we should invent an effective WHO."

Because in Bernard Werber's vision, the question is not whether other similar problems will arise, but when.

"I think that one of the sources is global warming. That is to say, it is liberating forms of life in particular," explains the author.

"I am thinking of the permafrost melting in Siberia, or of the life forms in the oceans that until then had not expressed themselves and are likely to do so. I think there are other forms of life that will appear. . "

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"It's up to us to adapt" 

A catastrophic vision of the future of humanity?

"No, we must not worry," reassures Bernard Werber.

"My theory is that whatever happens to us is for our good."

But the writer warns: "On the other hand, it's up to us to adapt and evolve to these changes."

This development is also at the heart of his vision of life.

"We're all going to die one day, but in the meantime we're here to learn. The question is: have we learned, have we used our lives to evolve?"

Bernard Werber therefore calls for individual and collective awareness to give meaning to his life, whatever upheavals the future may hold in store for us.

"Everyone, as an individual, is not there to undergo a system, or undergo the world," he insists.

"We are there to play the game as best we can, with our own cards, to learn and evolve."

A resolutely positive vision, despite a worrying context.