Guy Lagache
was the guest of “Buzz TV” this Wednesday, February 21 to talk about his documentary program “Terres d’urgence” on Ushuaia TV.
The opportunity for him to return to the next episode of his series, filmed in Mauritania and broadcast this Saturday evening in the first part of the evening.
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The journalist remembered the filming carried out in extraordinary conditions.
“
We were there during the hot season: you work until ten in the morning, and after that it’s just not possible,”
relates the director.
“We drank up to seven liters of water a day!”
Guy Lagache reveals that Mauritanians themselves do not work between eleven and seventeen hours during the hot season:
“What is very striking is that the heat can really block a country.”
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The journalist highlights the difficult daily life of those he calls “
desert fighters
”.
“The sand is advancing ever more strongly in this region, it is invading people's lives,”
he insists while specifying what he came to observe, with his co-director Baptiste Rimbert, in this region of the world.
“We wanted to see how we fight against the desert,”
says Guy Lagache.
“How do you support your family when you have to travel miles to fetch water, morning and evening.”
Among these “
fighters
”, the reporter mentions the “
sand removers
”, whom he compares to Sisyphus.
This new job was created after the sand arrived in the residents' homes.
Guy Lagache would like to salute them:
“I saw it in these people: in humans, there is a genius and a resilience which makes this need to get through it strong.”
A commitment born with “Capital”
Guy Lagache talks about the origins of his convictions:
“I was not born an activist, at first it bored me a little
,” the journalist even admits.
By presenting the show “Capital” on M6 in the 2000s and 2010s, he traveled a lot and better understood the ecological cause.
“We invented the first major investigative series called “Capital Earth”, to tell the story of how human activity has an impact on the environment,”
he explains.
“Since then, it hasn’t left me.”
The director also remembered the birth of “Terres d’urgence”, in March 2023. A show that the person concerned has always imagined in the form of a series:
“I immediately thought of that (...) this What would be interesting, more than a single issue, is to offer a series to better explore communities and ecosystems,”
he underlines.
“
It’s a program that I proposed to Ushuaia TV, with the aim of going to see the people on the front line
,” confides the former face of the Six.
“
What interests me is to see how they adapt to the unleashing of elements linked to this changing climate
,” says Guy Lagache.