Every day, there are 200,000 more people on the planet, that’s 200,000 extra mouths to feed, and the planet’s resources are not inexhaustible. Excessive fishing, intensive raising of livestock, overexploitation of land: everything we produce for eating has an unforeseen impact on our environment.
Guy Lagache and his crew shooting in China
With this new programme, Guy Lagache embarks on an incredible undertaking, a voyage spanning four continents, stopping in Ethiopia, China, Indonesia, the United States and France. Guy Lagache takes M6 viewers behind the scenes in the global food industry to answer the question of how to feed everyone without plundering the planet’s resources.
The intensive cultivation of palm oil in Borneo has completely changed the landscape. The great apes have lost their habitat. Once perched in the trees, they no longer know where to go.
Guy Lagache is not trying to make viewers feel guilty, but to inform them and thus raise awareness. “The purpose is not to make a statement that will induce feelings of guilt, but to show how our actions and gestures – even the most insignificant – can have an incredible impact on the other side of the planet. Environmental consequences, whose stakes are not limited to ecology. When we talk about the environment, we also have to talk about economic, social, political and geopolitical issues.”
The first enquiry on Capital Terre will be shown on Wednesday 24 March in prime time on M6. This documentary is directed by Guy Lagache, Jean-Bernard Schmidt and Emmanuel Leclercq.