In the magnificent light of the sunset on the Mediterranean, sometimes interrupted by the cries of the seagulls, France 2 had therefore installed its tray above the port of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes).
On the sidelines of the ocean summit Which is currently being held in the City of the French Riviera, with its bilateral discussions between heads of state, the colleagues of France Television, have indeed invited Emmanuel Macron for a very general public format led by Léa Salamé and Hugo Clément, with four guests, a little discreet: Thomas Pesquetthe astronaut, the champion Marie-José Pérec, Laurent Ballesta, diver and marine biologist and Heïdi Sevestre, climatologist and popularizer.
Offensive to defend his assessment, “guided by science” – he will repeat it many times in the evening – and positioning himself “at the same time” as an environmentalist and in support of fishermen, Did Emmanuel Macron convince? The format of the show, with its shocking video lozenges, has in any case allowed a certain pedagogy.
Attacks on Donald Trump
From the start of the program, attacks to the United States, the first maritime area but ostensibly absent from the Nice summit, multiply. Too bad, Boot in touch Emmanuel Macron who compares the planet to “a condominium”, with France second maritime zone, and all the others, if 92 % of the co-owners are ready to move forward, whatever the remaining 8 % he explains in short. Either.
No shattering announcement, we sweep the big challenges: plastic pollution first. The president defends the French assessment (prohibited straws, fruits and vegetables without over -assessment) and evokes the call of Nice carried by the Minister of French Ecological Transition. Then we discover the challenges of the Treaty on the high seas this far-West which is hardly regulated. To evoke the need not to launch the mining of the abyss, Hugo Clément presents a polymetallic nodule. It is rare to see these rocks which concentrate metals, present in the great funds and which stir up lusts.
Video shock
At 9:30 p.m., we come to the question that makes the most grip, the marine areas protected. The images of the “Ocean call” of the documentary maker, David Porteborough, the first who show a trawl in the process of destroying the ocean floor, are impressive. The ground is shaking. The fish are trying to run away. But they will not go very far: a huge net, weighted by a heavy chain, scrapes the bottom of the sea, and advances at high speed.
This is the moment when the shock of videos shakes the master of words. Continue to allow the footing of funds in the protected marine areas, “it is unacceptable” slides very calmly Heïdi Sevestre.
Emmanuel Macron is trying to recall the new areas prohibited at the Chalut, in Nice: 4 % for hexagonal waters, 14 % for French waters in general. True to the “at the same time”, he defends an “imperfect cap” which also makes it possible to accompany the fishermen. In Guest-Star, Paul Watson, the boss of the NGO Sea Sheperd and activist, released from prison thanks to France, tumbles on the set at the end of the program. “It takes imagination and courage,” encourages the “captain”, to whom Macron suggests that he has a good chance of obtaining asylum in France.
