The Last Word

I identify this word, first of all, with ecology. I have two children and I am often worried about what they will have when they are 36. It also means recycling and the fight against pollution. As artists, we play instruments, and when we buy new ones, or at concerts, we don’t think about recycling what we have got. Obviously, the economy plays a part. We need to live. But I think that the economy should combine with ecology. Both can be combined, in a local approach: using alternative energies, living in a more sustainable way. Companies nowadays are starting …

If I had to explain the word ECO to a child, I would tell him or her that the expression comes from the word ECOLOGY which basically means “friend of the environment”. I would also have to explain that, in one way or another, all the actions that we humans perform have consequences for the environment that surrounds us, that is for plants, animals, the air we breathe etc. … because we are all connected and we all share the same home, which is our planet earth. Obviously, I would also have to talk about pollution and its consequences, and …

To explain the simplicity of the grandeur of the word “Eco” to a child, I would talk about nature, everything that surrounds us, the environment. And I think that children nowadays are much more aware of things to do with pollution than my generation was perhaps, when some things were talked about much more and others much less. If we remember that people were allowed to smoke everywhere, in cinemas for example. I think that most journalism does not take environmental matters into consideration at the moment. Which is serious. Perhaps at the moment, despite everything, there are things that …