What is pollution? Children from Annemasse answer this question by thinking about water and air pollution. They explain what they can do at their scale to address this pollution. A smaller one was sensitive to marine pollution and birds that were affected by oil. Another one evokes foxes caught in traps. A little girl thinks we should stop hunters from killing or setting traps for foxes.
To answer the question of the journalist who takes up a title of paper written by the women of Fessenheim "Fessenheim, life or death of Alsace" and that the journalist finds too alarmist, Françoise BUCHER expresses what she feels, an anxiety linked to the Fessenheim power station and more generally to the network of nuclear power plants in Europe and worldwide.
In Castres, during a micro-sidewalk each inhabitant interviewed brings his solution to the problem of global warming at the time when the Copenhagen summit began One inhabitant says she is aware of the problem and works hard to sort the waste. Water and electricity savings are also part of the daily actions of another resident; if some Castrais remain puzzled by the information given by television and think that it is too late, others feel that it is in their gardens that they must exercise discretion in avoiding contaminating what they plant.
A young Lorrain aware of the importance of industry for Lorraine thinks that what is even more important that factories is above all water, air, trees and a whole cycle of nature that allows to live. Another young person adds that there are irreversible phenomena such as the disappearance of species and also believes that there are chemical reactions in the atmosphere that are also irreversible. He added that "a socialization of nature" should be achieved. Awareness is beginning to emerge. 'Forests are also very important,' says one of the young people interviewed, as pollution affects forests. He adds that forests are increasingly being destroyed and reforested with a single tree variety like pines and replanted with a single commercial goal.
A farmer whose land is close to the Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux nuclear power plant is wondering about a plant accident. If by chance there was an accident the reactor would melt; But if the reactor melted at an accelerated rate of about 20 degrees per second, it would disappear into the ground and the entire groundwater from the Loire to the mouth would be polluted. This situation of the establishment of the plant seems to him to be abhorrent.
What is an ecologist? Answers are provided by young people who denounce pollution. A young man who comes from Brittany says he is sensitized by the sinking of oil tankers, nuclear power plants, He does not belong to any political group. A young woman who has lived abroad has become aware of the society in which she lives surrounded by plastics in a world where food has no taste.
Dans une allocution, René Dumont candidat écologiste à l'élection présidentielle, rappelle ce qu'est l'écologie et dénonce la pollution environnementale : "...l'apocalypse, nous ne l'annonçons pas, elle est là parmi nous, elle se trouve dans les nuages de pollution qui nous dominent, dans les eaux d'égouts que sont devenues nos rivières...".
The operation "Spring cleaning" will take place in the forest of Bondy in Seine Saint Denis. For the second year in a row, the Ministry of the Environment, communities, associations and schools are gathering around a single project: to rehabilitate natural sites by maintaining the ponds and protecting the amphibians that live there. An opportunity to raise awareness of nature protection among children and adolescents.
La phrase devenue célèbre de Jacques Chirac, prononcée à Johannesburg lors du Sommet mondial sur le développement durable : "Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs, nous ne pourrons pas dire que nous ne savions pas; prenons garde que le XXIe siècle ne devienne pour les générations futures celui d'un crime de l'humanité contre la vie".
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.