Agricultural engineer and politician, René Dumont appears today as a whistleblower as he warned, from the 1970s, about the depletion of the planet’s natural resources. We find him here talking about drought in Africa, water as a precious asset, risks of famine.
Interviewed on agriculture, agronomist René DUMONT discusses Third World export agriculture, a type of agriculture that reduces food crops for people: "...in these countries, we can no longer produce enough to eat properly (...) o, is destroying the natural environment in the Third World, we are starving people, we are heading towards a terrible world famine".
Interviewed, ecologist and agronomist Réné Dumont, speaks about the possible scarcity of water in the future: "Water will be lacking. If we continue to multiply ourselves, we humans, and if we continue to indiscriminately multiply industrial production and ubanisation, which requires much more water than the countryside, we will certainly run out of water before the end of the century. ' Questions the measures: desalination of seawater, transport of icebergs. Disadvantages of these methods. In conclusion: "we do not know where we are going".
Interviewed, René DUMONT, honorary professor at the Institut National Agronomique de Paris, reacts about the use of different types of energy and blames their waste: "...do you know that air conditioners in the United States consume more than all of India?... there is a deadly society".
René DUMONT, professor at the National Agricultural Institute, speaks about the dangers of nuclear energy: "Wisdom dictates us to refuse the solution whose dangers we do not know".
René DUMONT, a candidate in the 1974 presidential election, an environmentalist, tries to make viewers aware of waste: "We will soon run out of water and that is why I drink in front of you a glass of precious water since before the end of the century, if we continue such an overflow, it will miss...". He finishes by drinking his glass of water. He is the first ecologist candidate in a presidential election in France.