“It’s a total aberration” reacts the author Alain Damasio

“It’s a total aberration”, reacts Monday, June 19 on France Inter the writer Alain Damasio, while the decree of dissolution of the collective the Uprisings of the Earth is presented Wednesday, June 21 in the Council of Ministers. The science fiction author participated in the writing of a collective work to defend the collective: “We do not dissolve an uprising. 40 votes for the Uprisings of the Earth”, published on June 9 by Editions du Seuil.

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Dissolve Earth Uprisings, “It’s not just a bad idea, it’s a total, absolute aberration”believes Alain Damasio, in the sense that the collective “defend in a very simple way” the idea that “water must remain a common good (…) Water is the new gold, it will be decisive with the drought: we see it, it becomes constant.”

A vicious circle of escalating violence “initiated by the police”

Threatened with dissolution by the Minister of the Interior the day after the demonstration against the mega-basins in Sainte-Soline, the collective also made people talk about it after an action in Nantes, during which an experimental greenhouse in Pont-Saint-Martin was ransacked. This radicality “not only do I understand it but I defend it and I promote it”assures the writer.

“There is a real urgency to change this world”says Alain Damasio, “if the government is no longer able to listen to these ecological arguments, we must move to a higher level of action”. But “It’s not violencehe assures, we are talking about people cutting up a plastic sheet so that the water from the mega-basins returns to the groundwater”.

Alain Damasio denounces the communication of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, “bearer of this violence” and that “active against peaceful activists”as in Sainte-Soline where, according to him, “5,000 disencirclement grenades” were sent in two hours, in particular “on families and strollers”. “We enter a vicious circle” escalation of violence “started by the police”assures the writer, while we touch “to property, not to individuals”. “For me it’s radical, yes, but it’s not at all violent”.