Sabotage and property destruction are not dirty words for Léna Lazare and her cohort. They’re acts of joy in the fight against climate change.
In France, environmentalists are targeting mega-basins, giant water storage systems carved into the countryside to adapt to climate change. Critics say these basins hoard water, reserving it for private landowners and leaving rivers parched and local groundwater systems depleted.
Lazare is one of the 200 founding members of Les Soulèvements de la Terre, a French organization that uses sabotage to disrupt infrastructure that harms the environment. The group has been outlawed by the French government, but Lazare remains defiant, refusing to be labeled as a criminal.
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