After the publication of new scientific simulations predicting an increase of the climate up to 7 ° C by 2100, the photographer describes on Europe 1 "a species of banality of the evil".

INTERVIEW

Talking about global warming, "is talking, somewhere, about the end of the world". Invited from Europe 1 Tuesday evening, after the publication of new scientific simulations predicting an increase of the climate of up to 7 ° C by 2.100, the photographer and president of the GoodPlanet Yann-Arthus Bertrand Foundation has been resigned, believing that 'we had to have the courage to admit that we have lost the battle against climate change'.

"All summer long, I've been called by radios, TVs to talk about the heat, melting ice, fires in Siberia and Alaska, the Amazon ...", laments the septuagenarian. "We are in a sort of collective denial, we do not want to believe what is happening, it is always the fault of others, it is the fault of the Brazilian president, it is the fault of the lobbies, policies, but for example on the Amazon, we deforest for soybeans, to feed our industrial agriculture, intensive French agriculture is responsible, in part, for this deforestation. "

"We live in a sort of banality of evil"

As for the solutions put forward by some scientists - measures allowing the immediate reduction of CO2 emissions - Yann-Arthus Bertrand believes that they "sound a little false". "We've been hearing this for twenty years," he says. And to recognize: "It is not easy to say, that we are going towards the end of the world if we continue like this.We are so addicted to this oil that makes us live ... It is growth that pay the schools my grandchildren go to, it's the growth that pays the hospitals that will heal me soon, at age 73. It's growth that makes us all live, and this growth is not good for We live in a sort of banality of evil. "" The Grail of any politician today is the purchasing power and preserving jobs, "says the photographer. "I think that ecology comes a long way in. The politician has an electoral vision, a short-term vision, whereas ecology is a very long-term vision. (...) Personally, I believe that you have to reinvent a new world, there is a rebirth after each collapse and you have to prepare for it. "