https://www.ouest-france.fr/leditiondusoir/data... What simple gestures for the planet in 2020? Here are the tips of ten personalities
Collected by Laura DANIEL
They are authors, animators, sportsmen, scientists and doctors… We asked ten personalities for advice to preserve the environment. If they had to keep only one, here is the ecological gesture that they would recommend you apply on a daily basis.
Stéphane Bern, journalist: "Being a citizen consumer"
We must all lead by example because we are all concerned with the future of our planet. So I make sure to be a citizen consumer. I avoid all prepared meals, or products with endocrine disruptors, paraben or aluminum salts. In the same way, I favor organic, local products, and I avoid packaging especially by buying in bulk.
Corentin de Chatelperron, engineer at the Low-tech Lab: "Becoming minimalist"
There are many gestures that come to my mind, but the last one on which I have made a lot of progress is the reduction in the number of objects around me. Hunt for unnecessary objects! In Japan, during a stopover with Nomade des Mers, our laboratory boat with which we are looking for good low-tech innovations around the world, I met one of the masters of the "minimalist" movement. He explained to me that the idea is to have only the essentials, choose your objects carefully and take care of them.
Less objects, it saves money and time (because each object requires attention). He convinced me: a clean environment frees the spirit and creativity ... In addition to having a positive ecological impact!
Christine Berrou, humorist and author: "Stop the water bottles"
This ecological gesture is everyone's reach: I no longer use a bottle of water! I have my cute little gourd that I carry around. At first it seems to land another time, have a gourd is very "adventurer of the XIX th century."
But when I calculate today the number of bottles of water - and therefore the amount of plastic - that I have not used, I am frankly very proud of myself. It is up to you, with the plastic bottles, not to push the cap a little too far ...
Franck Thilliez, author of detective novels: "Clean up nature"
My ecological gesture is collecting waste. I run two to three times a week, and during each outing in nature, the fields, the countryside, the beach, I collect one or two pieces of waste, which I then throw in the nearest trash. It doesn't cost anything, it doesn't prevent me from running and it cleans up a little of our beautiful nature of products that sometimes take hundreds of years to degrade, whose chemical compounds seep into the soil, etc.
I invite all those who walk or simply walk around to do so. One or two pieces of waste will not spoil the pleasure of walking and we always feel better after having at least tried to make a small contribution.
Flore Berlingen, director of Zero Waste France: "Buy nothing new"
Limiting purchases of new objects (clothing, smartphone and other screens, furniture, etc.) is one of the choices that we can make on a personal basis with the most impact. Indeed, behind each new object there is a consumption of raw materials, water and considerable energy but invisible to us because it occurs at the time of manufacture. To produce a tablet, for example, you need 338 kg of raw materials!
For the 3 e consecutive year, so I will participate in the challenge is nothing new, by searching for each of my purchases an alternative: second hand, loan, exchange, lease or donate items!
Alex Goude, TV host: "Saving water"
I lived in Las Vegas (United States) for several years and cannot be said to be the greenest city on the planet. On the other hand, we are taught very quickly to save water and water is life as my blue fish would say.
So, here are a few simple gestures: take only showers and not baths, turn off the water when you soap your whole body. Stop running water when brushing your teeth. And do the dishes with water in tubs rather than continuously flowing water. It seems little and it's very simple but it's already not bad. And I stick to it.
Michel Cymes, doctor: "Go electric"
The more it goes, the more I tell myself that I will have to turn more and more to the electric. I have already bought an electric bike which I use for my trips in Paris when I can. I circulate, otherwise, on a scooter, and I will exchange mine for an electric scooter.
I will no longer pollute, and I will not make any more noise… Not to mention I will no longer be dependent on filling the tanks of my service station!
Corinne Lepage, ex-Minister of the Environment: "Reduce the meat"
Minimizing my consumption of meat means reducing the consumption of Brazilian GMO soybeans, avoiding deforestation, and reducing greenhouse gases.
Jean Jouzel, climatologist: "Limiting the plane"
My suggestion would be to limit the use of the plane as much as possible for travel in mainland France (when possible, of course). I write these few lines from Nice where I spend with my wife a few days of vacation between two stays in Brittany: we came from Paris and leave there by train (we were lucky because none of the two trips we had booked were has been deleted…).
Alice Modolo, vice-champion of freediving world: "Getting involved in the field"
I have long wondered how I can be a change agent. My option was to get involved in the field! I chose to volunteer for a mission to protect biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest alongside the association Planète Urgence. An association that is close to my heart because it puts people at the heart of the environmental solution.
My mission, which lasted 15 days, consisted of carrying out transects of 5 to 8 hours per day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, to establish a census of the fauna and the avifauna in the reserve of Rio Bigal and to enrich the scientific data.
These missions provide new skills to local populations. And at the same time, these missions impact us, the volunteers, by changing our relationship to the world.