INTERVIEW
Saturday, he will be in the procession, in the middle of the demonstrators. Lambert Wilson will walk for the climate in Paris alongside many young people who still hope to slow global warming. Engaged for 18 years for Greenpeace, he worried Friday at the microphone of Europe 1 the latest alarming projections of a recent study of French scientists.
A commitment born in the countryside
For Lambert Wilson, interest in ecology and climate was born in adolescence. "I was raised in the countryside", a "chance" for the actor. "I observed how this campaign in the Paris region was getting worse.In a river in my parents' garden, there were fish when we arrived at the age of twelve." Six years later, "there was no more at all, just moss instead, everything was ruined in this idyllic garden" he had known.
He encourages civil disobedience
Since Lambert Wilson is active to change attitudes. For this, he believes concrete actions are needed. "Strikes, brand boycotts", but not only. Lambert Wilson relays this "call for civil disobedience advocated by some organizations", namely "symbolic actions whose illegality is really very light". Like Greenpeace, which he supports, "a pacifist organization that does things 'illegal' but so soft that it is not that which is important". For Lambert Wilson, what matters is "apprehending states and forcing them to act."
Greta Thunberg, the voice of reason
Icon of the movement of which she is the initiative, Greta Thunberg receives the support of Lambert Wilson. For the actor, "It's a 16 or 17-year-old human being who sees that his future depends on the actions of the big decision-makers, and says, 'You're leaving me a world of death.'" According to the actor, despite her young age, "she has the right words, those of her heart and mind." And to add, "this young woman is quite sensible in what she says She has no personal interest She does not want to make money She simply says to the decision makers, you take us hostage, you leave us a world in dysfunction based on destruction. "
He supports Yannick Jadot rather than Ségolène Royal
Very critical of France, which "does not respect its commitments of the COP 21", since "the carbon emissions have exceeded forecasts in 2017 and 2018", Lambert Wilson is also against Ségolène Royal, " who takes jets to go on a family vacation to the island of Ré ". He prefers Yannick Jadot, the leader of Europe-Ecology Greens and former director of Greenpeace, elected in May at the European Parliament. "He is a much more honest person," says Wilson, ready to "defend him in all his political appointments." Including so for the presidential elections of 2022.