VIDEO. Survey of radical ecologists

Blocking motorists, spraying the canvases of old masters with soup, sabotaging factories considered polluting… for months, not a week has passed without Last Renovation, Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion organizing a punch operation. In the ranks of these organizations, many young people between 20 and 30 years old, mostly graduates and city dwellers.

For them, traditional militancy with petitions or climate marches is over. This new generation, anxious about global warming, chooses to strike hard to warn of climate inaction.

A judicial review, a week in prison, trials to come…

Leave to face justice. Like Rachel, 20, a road blocker under judicial supervision, Erwan, the committed computer scientist who faces seven years in prison during a trial to be held in May 2023, or Hugo, a scientist and father who spent a week in jail.

What drives these new activists to engage so radically? How far are they willing to go to make their voices heard? “Special Envoy” followed these new radical ecologists for several weeks.

A report by Romain Boutilly, Elodie Delevoye, Perrine Aubert, Francis Simoes, Baptiste Blanc, Sylvain Testor and Adrien Bellay broadcast in “Special Envoy” on February 9, 2023.

Following this report: “Confidences of an eco-anxious”, an interview with the director and writer Cyril Dion.

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