Bourges (AFP)
The singer Suzane is once again committed to the planet: her livestream Tuesday on the Mer de Glace, at the foot of Mont-Blanc, alert on global warming, with proceeds donated to the environmental foundation GoodPlanet.
The one who sings "We broke the planet, where is the after-sales service?"
has this time installed its keyboards, microphones and cameras at an altitude of 1,900 meters to show the "urgency" that there is to come out of "denial" in the face of the perils which threaten nature, as she said to the AFP.
"I went there when I was younger, with my parents, brothers and sisters, and it's quite shocking to see how that has changed in 20 years", says the artist met during her visit to the Printemps de Bourges festival.
"I had kept the memory of my child's gaze, the ice cave, the Mer de Glace, she continues. With my adult eyes, today, I saw a sea of pebbles, the sea de glace no longer has a face, it's very sad, I cried a little ".
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It is estimated that the Mer de Glace is receding 8 to 10 meters per year, making the site one of the most spectacular illustrations of the impact of global warming in France.
The average temperature observed near the Mont-Blanc Massif increased by 4 ° between the 1950s and the 2000s.
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The longest French glacier, which winds for 7 kilometers, has retreated about 2 kilometers since 1850, giving way to a bed of pebbles at the bottom of the "white valley" and has lost 120 meters in thickness over the past century .
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To illustrate "Where is the after-sales service?"
(single from her album "Toï Toï"), Suzane had shot a video in Mbeubeuss, near Dakar in Senegal, in one of the largest open dumps in the world - 114 hectares of rubbish - listed by the NGO Waste Atlas Partnership .
Once again, the shocking images alternate between sections of the grandiose scenery of the Chamonix valley and corners of degraded nature.
The virtual ticket office for Suzane's livestream is open to attend this show which will be broadcast on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on MyCanal and the CanalVod website.
All proceeds will go to the GoodPlanet Foundation of photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
"We have the impression of seeing the world we saw in geography books disappear, the Amazon is on fire, it melts elsewhere, we must stop closing our eyes", resumes the one that was sacred revelation scene at the Victoires de music in 2020. "Maybe my last brother won't see this Mer de Glace, that we will tell him + the Mer de Glace was here. + He and the younger generation will tell us: + ah yeah, ok .. . + ".
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“For young people, the situation is extremely scary, I hear a lot of people who say + I was born at the wrong time +, my little brother is 14 years old and is already afraid of his future. adult life, finding a job, which causes stress, but + will the world in which I live be able to welcome me? +.
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As usual with Suzane, commitment also has a physical dimension.
It was therefore out of the question to bring artist, technical team and equipment by helicopter on site for an obvious carbon footprint issue.
“It’s not something simple, but I love this kind of project,” she emphasizes. It was hard, sporty, with a 5-6 hour walk - that's just the go - in the cold, with crevices where the guide tells you + if you put your foot in you don't get out + ".
"But after a while, the cold, the altitude, you no longer feel them. These images, you have to show them, I watched a chamois go by and I wondered + does he find food in this place with all these stones? + ".
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