Carrots, potatoes and radishes.
If the vegetables are popular, the place is a little less so.
Environmental activists from the Ibiza collective - which made a name for itself at the start of the year with its Jean-Michel Blanquer look-alike - burst into the golf course of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) on Monday morning, to install … a vegetable garden.
An operation carried out to question the use of water resources, while the territory is affected by a major drought.
“In a world with limited resources, do we consume everything to the end for those who can afford it, and so much the worse for the others, so much the worse for the future.
Or do we organize ourselves collectively to use our common resources in a reasonable, sustainable and fair way?
asks on Twitter Pauline Rapilly Ferniot, member of the collective and elected EELV to the town hall of Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).
This morning we set up a vegetable garden on a golf green in the Yvelines.
While the episodes of droughts and heat waves are increasing, we must ask the question of the use of our water resources.
Preserving golf courses, is that the priority?
📷 Chloé Ghuilem pic.twitter.com/UHybwGQHIK
— Collectif Ibiza (@CollectifIbiza) August 22, 2022
At Le Parisien, she specifies that the action "did not target a golf course in particular, neither this sport nor golfers, but wants to point out certain uses to show the absurdity of the situation".
Arrived on the scene before the opening, around 7:30 am, 8 am, with a handful of activists, she thus installed a small square of earth.
“Nothing is done to reflect on our water consumption”
The choice of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was imposed "because it has one of the largest greens in France", underlines the activist.
“And it glows green.
I spent my holidays in Normandy and the golf courses did not have this color.
Moreover, what is shocking is that in this department, certain areas are in a drought crisis situation.
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The entire south-eastern area of Yvelines - i.e. 38 municipalities - has indeed been subject to drastic restrictions since the end of July.
The rest of the department also remains affected to a lesser extent.
This undoubtedly raises questions about the use of water for certain activities.
And in particular golf, whose courses are particularly numerous in the west of Île-de-France.
For their part, several golf managers claim to have drastically reduced their water consumption, sometimes by more than 70% and are concentrating on very small plots.
“We water only 2% of the surface, explained Philippe Pilato, director of the National Golf, in Guyancourt.
In reality, the current watering is used to safeguard the site”.
And beyond the ecological question, it's a whole economy that revolves around it.
The elected EELV deplores that "nothing is done to reflect on our water and energy consumption", citing among other examples that of private jets.
She thus joins the will of the president of the Ecologist pole at the regional council of Île-de-France, Ghislaine Senée, who in Le Parisien asking to "put all the territorial actors around a table" in order to "prioritize the actions in function of the climate emergency”.