Consommation durable : Vers un mode de vie écologique

From Paris to Shanghai, from New York to Dubai, our way of life is becoming almost the same from one end of the planet to the other: we buy, we throw away, and everything we consume has an unsuspected impact on the planet. . Clothing, household objects, toys or flat screens, to arrive on our shelves, all these products have undergone a globalized journey. Raw materials were needed to manufacture them and draw on our planet's resources in the four corners of the globe. And after having used them, the products we throw away will still experience a fate that is largely unknown. Jeans, for example, have become the global uniform, selling 2 billion per year. But to supply the planet, that means mass cultivating cotton, the most water-intensive plant on the planet: 11,000 liters for a single kilo of cotton. What major upheavals does this culture bring to the environment and the lives of millions of people? What alternatives are being put in place? Another material has conquered our time: plastic. Packaging or everyday objects, it is everywhere in our lives. To the point of invading it. Because once thrown away, only a small part is recycled. The rest is found in nature. What to do with all this waste? And faced with this threat, what new, “cleaner” products are manufacturers inventing? We are also falling more and more for hi-tech devices: computers, flat screens or mobile phones. The only problem is that by changing them more and more often, we forget that we always need more raw materials to make them, materials that are exhausted and sometimes extracted to the detriment of entire populations. Director: LAGACHE - SCHMIDT - LECLERC