In recent renovations, acting as an antidote to eco-anxiety: “In the face of this fear, engagement is the beginning”

Twenty seconds in 761 days. Twenty seconds is the time that 24-year-old Nina spent on the stage of Olympia on February 24 during Caesars before the defense. on his shirt “not even ironed” – As the actor and comedian Ahmed Silla, one of the master of ceremonies, joked – according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the number of days until the point of no return has been counted. That is, exceeding the limit of global warming by +1.5°C. Two years before the end of the world as we know it, to sum it up.

“I didn’t feel any particular stress or fear. At that moment it was as if I didn’t exist anymore, I was there to deliver the message. I expected a more hostile reaction. I even got a few applauses when they took me off the stage.”, says Nina, a photography student and activist at Last Renovation (DR). How did he manage to overcome all the roadblocks and with Lea Drucker and the young actor? A small inner shell will remain a secret in order to“Avoid getting burned next few times”, points out Nina, who is now persona non grata in Olympia.

For a young woman, this is not her first weapon. He has already participated in three road blockades and “garbage” (spraying orange paint using a fire extinguisher) on January 6 by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Acts of non-violent civil disobedience with the purported purpose of disruption to attract media and public authority attention. The numerous police arrests and subsequent trials (four to date) are an integral part of the strategy of the collective born in April 2022, which became famous two months after the young Alize hit the net in the semifinals at Roland Garros. – the final.

A radical mode of struggle based on precise demand – the energy renovation of buildings in France – and “Established and legitimized knowledge, therefore institutional, which is relatively new”, Alexis Vrignon, lecturer in modern history at the University of Orleans, co-authorHistory of the struggle for the environment (Textual, 2021). Still, even with reports from the IPCC and other research institutes, this battle for a livable future is not a unanimous one. In a survey that was published The Huffington Post Three-quarters of French people polled in November 2022 said they were not in favor of blocking roads, and eight in ten disapproved of what happened in museums, i.e. paint being thrown on works protected by glass.