“I’m back from the future and we won.” Annaïg has decided to lead her ecological fight, on her scale, at home in Plabennec

What if the fight for the environment was more effective locally? On a small scale, in her neighborhood, her village? This is Annaïg’s bet. Anxious about climate change and the overconsumption of fossil fuels, she returned to the country of her childhood, to Plabennec, in Finistère to share her ecological sensitivity. She tells her fight and her difficulties in a documentary: “Return to Plabennec”

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Return to your roots, “to put hands in the earth“from its origins after several years of absence, this is the choice of Annaïg Plassard, eco-anxious. A return to the sources to act now and with the greatest number of volunteers living in Plabennec on the consequences of climate change.

Faced with the ecological challenges that threaten, she wants to win the bet of ecological transition at the local level. And start with her municipality.

This is the story she tells in her documentary “Return to Plabennec”.

Alone we go faster, together we go further

Kevin

Organic farmer from Plabennec

Despite the clichés “eco-bobo” which stick to her skin, Annaïg will try to convince the Plabennecois to register the town in the network of towns in transition. Because if “Plabennec is certainly not a land of green revolutionaries, it is surprisingly a city with assets that make it a reassuring place when we imagine 2040 ” she explains.

To present her project, Annaïg imagines returning gloriously, and on horseback, from the year 2040, with the bet won, of the ecological transition of Plabennec. • © ftv

The oil crisis, in particular, seems to concern all the inhabitants of the commune, elected officials, farmers, shopkeepers, hunters. Annaïg naturally goes to meet them.

Kevin, for example, a farmer from Plabennec, has chosen to turn his back on the market economy of agriculture. He grows grass, rather than corn.Grass is perennial, corn must be replanted every year “. Without opposing conventional farmers and organic farmers in the region, he asks questions.”Where will we find energy if the decline is forced?

If we have to go back to the age of sickles and log saws to maintain the fields, many will be shocked.

Kevin

Farmer in Plabennec

Supporting local economic projects for the town, Yoan, Director of a supermarket in Plabennec is also sensitive to this. A large part of the purchases of the Plabennecois are made in his store. But he is convinced that it is necessary, above all, to maintain the vitality of Plabennec thanks to employment in particular, and the economic decline is not going in the right direction, according to him. However, “At 5 euros per litre of diesel, we really have to ask ourselves questions” ! is it suitable.

If I have to lay off people to make it 100% local, that’s not an option. But for seafood, for example, there’s nothing stopping us from taking our bikes to travel the 50 km that separate us from the coast!

yo

Sales Director

Jean-Jacques, a conventional breeder, says he has always known how to adapt in the profession, and this for generations.The world is changing and so are people” he said.

He is not in favour of degrowth, because what he fears is relocation.”Unfortunately, if we produce less, others elsewhere will not hesitate to do so. Our agriculture risks relocation. But the land is here! he gets annoyed.

“Tomorrow, there should be technologies that do not yet exist and that will allow production” he said. But he understands that at the end “technology“It is better to speak”d’innovation“.

Improving the carbon performance of the farm also improves economic performance. But if people continue to consume as before, we will see our agriculture relocated.

This is the question asked by Bleuenn, an organic farmer at the Kerillo farm.For example, why not group purchases for products that cannot be found in local stores?x?” she asks.

“The citizen dynamic has achieved some objectives, but we cannot reach civil society with our ideas and II’m not good at confrontation. ” she admits.

Bleuenn, organic farmer from Plabennec. • © FTV

Bleuenn is not a protester and for her, it is difficult to convince at all costs. She moves forward with her convictions and at her own pace.We have achieved some goals, but we are far from having reached civil society with our ideas. We are stagnating.” she said.

I feel like I’m doing something on my scale, not just for myself, not to earn money, not because I’m an entrepreneur, but to improve our community, our neighborhood. That’s how we can change things.

Bleuenn

Farmer at the Bio De Kérillo farm

Annaïg does not put forward her political opinions, because the actions to be taken, step by step, are addressed to and concern the entire community.

She emphasizes that she is not part of an opposition approach, but of a new approach of participation and communication. Even if “The timid “neither left nor right” with its consensual force, that scares me too” she said.

Perhaps her father’s wisdom will reassure her: “A satisfying conviction is a conviction that you cultivate in your secret garden.” he said to him.

So it is, “dreams, reflections, but no controversy for a possible future in Plabennec”taking into account the ecological change that threatens habits.

Today, Bleuenn has settled in Plabennec. She maintains constructive relationships with the inhabitants of Plabennec, with her neighbors and her friends.

And the “city ​​bobo“in the countryside, is happy about it, because today, she has the satisfaction of having succeeded in moving from “I to We.” And that’s greatr” she said.

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