In this first episode of our series on the end of the abundance of water, Xavier Yvon explains the tensions over the resource with Alexandra Saviana, journalist at the Société de L’Express department, and Valentin Ehkirch, from the Science department.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Margaux Lannuzel (writing), Charlotte Baris (editing), Jules Krot (directing) and Marion Galard (work-study).
Credits: INA
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: Gaizka Iroz/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: To start this episode, I’m going to ask you to trust me. Because I’m going to open the cabinet of La Loupe, to look for a podcast that has nothing to do with our topic of the day. But you know me, you know that I always land on my feet… So stick with me.
The advantage is that I know very well where to look for our series on transport, I just put it away. You may have discovered it during the holidays elsewhere. I need episode 1, the one on false good ideas to encourage green mobility. This is not to talk to you about the night train or free public transport. This is to make you hear this:
Cecile Maisonneuve : “So yes, ecologists, in the 60s and 70s, were pioneers in understanding environmental problems. Besides, their predictions were often superbly ignored.”
INA video clip : “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 run out.”
Xavier Yvon : You may have recognized Cécile Maisonneuve, columnist at L’Express. But above all, I would like us to take an interest in the man we heard from afterwards. His name is René Dumont, he was an environmental candidate in the presidential election in 1974. The extract is from one of his campaign videos.
No, this podcast is not devoted to the roots of the environmental issue in politics either. So there is only one possibility left: we are going to talk about water. Almost 50 years later, René Dumont’s prediction has come true, you may have experienced it in your area last summer. Water is lacking everywhere, in the fields but also more and more frequently in our taps, and this while the resources of France seem sufficient on paper. How to explain this paradox ? And above all, how can we review our resource management to resist droughts and avoid shortages?
A la Loupe, we thought that the subject was important enough for us to devote two podcasts to it, today and tomorrow.
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