Paris (AFP)

From deserts to megalopolises, from rice fields to coal mines, from mega-fires to melting glaciers: with "Legacy, our heritage", the photographer and activist Yann Arthus-Bertrand wants to call for "fight" against the destruction of the planet.

Ten years after "Home", the documentary broadcast Tuesday in the first part of the evening on M6 as part of the group's "green week" undoubtedly bears the paw of the photographer, with its forests, its oceans and other images of the Earth seen of the sky.

But nature is not alone in the viewfinder of the activist who scrolls before the eyes of the spectator lines of greenhouses as far as the eye can see, oil platforms or stacks of containers in gigantic port areas.

"The film is really made for people who are not too interested in ecology", explained Yann Arthus-Bertrand during a press conference, to present his "most personal film".

"It's a bit of a record," he added.

"We are addicted to growth which is killing us but the solution is there: if we really decide to decarbonize our lives, we can do it".

And to push for action against global warming, he relies on the "emotion" of his images.

"There are solutions, it's very simple, it's to avoid fossil fuels. But since these fossil fuels are the center of our economy, will we be able to do it?" asks the director.

"It's worth the fight, maybe we won't succeed but at least we will have tried."

The 74-year-old activist, who said he was giving up the plane in 2019, claims to have made this film while saving carbon: he used a majority of archives, not broadcast, of his previous documentaries ("Woman", "Human ") and sequences filmed in drones and ordered abroad.

The founder of the Good Planet Foundation is now working on a new film called "France, a love story", which will tell "all that there is great in France (...) through interviews with French people" , he explained.

Before another documentary project on refugees.

Just after "Legacy", M6 will broadcast a debate on Tuesday evening presented by Ophélie Meunier, in the presence of the photographer.

And as part of this "green week", "it will be 60 hours of programs over a week devoted to ecology on the various branches of the M6 ​​group, because ecology is one of the major concerns of the French", said Jonathan Curiel, deputy director of M6, W9 and 6ter programs in charge of magazines and documentaries.

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