Nicolas Hulot

Biography

Wire of Monique Hulot born Moulun, mother with the hearth, become medical visitor and of Philippe Hulot, adventurer, gold digger to the Venezuela and head of undertaking in the confectionery with Paris then in the sale of plants with Nice. It has a brother, Gonzague, and a sister, Béatrice. His/her paternal grandfather, Architect, lived in the building of the Cinéaste Jacques Tati with which, it will inspire the character of Mr Hulot. It made its studies with the college Saint Jean de Passy in the 16th district of Paris.

The mother of Monique Hulot had married Georges Moulun, of a family among richest of France which very lost whereas it had made her fortune in the construction of the first Barrage S Hydroélectrique S. Philippe Hulot dies of a cancer and leaves a family of three children whereas Nicolas Hulot is just 15 years old. His/her brother, Gonzague, commit suicide the Christmas Day whereas Nicolas Hulot is only 19 years old. It is him which discovered the body of his/her brother, but, not wanting to waste the festival of Christmas of its mother, he preferred to reveal this sad news the following day.

Photographer

Nicolas Hulot wishes to earn his living very quickly. Successively plagist, monitor of veil, waiter then photoreporter, it is engaged in 1973 by Göksin Sipahioglu, founder of the news agency Sipa. In 1976, it leaves to the Guatemala, following the earthquake which made 20.000 died. The same year, thanks to a friend, it leaves in report in South Africa with the navigator Eric Tabarly. In 1977, it is in Rhodesia, full war of independence and interviews Ian Smith, the Prime Minister. The March 26th 1978, it will miss the stereotype of the baron Edouard Jean Empain. The November 2nd 1979, it refused to photograph the death of Jacques Mesrine whereas it is among the first on the spot of the shooting.

Career in the audio-visual one

Nicolas Hulot will begin his career in the media with the radio. It is Patrice White-Francard which makes known it on the waves of France Inter. It will on television make to its beginnings in an emission for children the visitors of Wednesday , in 1980. Then, it is made known like organizer-deferring in evening on France Inter on events Moto, its chronicle is called the handle in the corner .

As of 1987, it presents the television program Ushuaia, the magazine of the extreme , diffused on TF1. It becomes thanks to this emission familiar of the televiewers and one of large the French spokesperson of the safeguard of nature of these 20 last years.

In 1996, it presents Opération Okavango on TF1.

In 2005, a survey places it at the 60e place in the television program the largest French of all times .

He is the inspirer of the new chain Ushuaia TV, launched on the cable in March 2005 and pertaining to the Groupe TF1.

The monthly magazine Ushuaia sees the day in 2006.

The Nicolas-Hulot Foundation for nature and the man

He creates in 1990 the Ushuaia Foundation which becomes in January 1995 the Fondation Nicolas-Hulot for nature and the man (recognized public utility in 1996). Bernard Carton creates in 1996, the Nicolas-Hulot Foundation for nature and man-Belgium. Since, the projects and the partnerships did not cease developing.

May 19th, 2006, the FNHB celebrated its 10th birthday and launched on this occasion the Challenge for the Earth to Belgium.

In 2005, the agency of the environment and control of energy (Ademe) and the Nicolas-Hulot foundation for nature launch the operation “Challenge for the Earth”. They invite the public, the communities or the companies with being in the epic of the daily life, more respectful of the environment.

Political commitment for ecology

There remains a “free electron” (as he describes itself) but is available to whoever asks him its opinion. He thus advised several political personalities such as Laurent Fabius or Jacques Chirac, with which, he would have refused in 2002 the proposal to become Ministre for Ecology.

Nicolas Hulot is at the origin of the idea to include a Charte of the environment in the Constitution, which is effective since March 2005.

He is in favor of a company of sobriety and quotes Jean-Baptiste de Foucauld which recommends “frugal abundance”:

“It is not a question to remove cars and planes. But to organize moderation before being constrained there. Either the evolution will be imposed on us, or one will organize it. ”

The July 29th 2006, of the rumors circulate according to which it could be candidate with the French presidential election of 2007, but it contradicts: “I will make very not to be candidate”. He goes to the summer school of the UDF, the Verts and Cape 21 to preach with the policies the need for acting urgently to preserve our environment. In September, it announces on the site of its Foundation which it will present its decision at the end of November.

Its step aims at making pressure on the men and political apparatuses, he writes on his site:

“It is necessary to place the ecological stakes in the middle of the presidential election! 9 French out of 10 consider it necessary to change policy radically to face the ecological risk, 52% wish that environmental protection be among the top priority of the future president. At the dawn of the elections, I launch a call to the reason by hoping that the candidates of the whole of the parties seize these questions and fix priorities. I wish that the policies place these stakes in the middle of their electoral programs. The Foundation and myself let us put all our energy to convince the candidates in this direction. ”

The September 7th, Nouvel Observateur puts Nicolas Hulot at the one and publishes a great investigation by calling it: “The man who wants to save the Earth”.

Petition on line

At the end of November 2006, Nicolas Hulot places at the disposal on an Internet site a petition on line allowing each one to support his action. At May 24th, 2007, the petition was signed by more: 740300 people of which principal candidates with the presidential election. Following the presidential election, a petition entitled “Pact against Hulot” is put on line on Internet by its detractors.

Candidature for the presidential election of 2007

The November 7th 2006, it launches the ecological Pacte in order to impose ecology in the French presidential campaign. It thus wishes to challenge the candidates, to mobilize the citizens and to nourish the public debate. Its Pact will be signed by 5 candidates out of 12 declared with presidential (Ségolène Royal, Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Bayrou, Marie-George Buffet and Dominique Voynet) and more 700 000 people. Two other candidates, who did not sign the pact, nevertheless reacted on the initiative: Arlette Laguiller rejects the responsibility for the situation on employers and refuses in block the proposed measures by Mr. Hulot while Olivier Besancenot proposes alternative solutions, according to him more effective than those proposed by Mr. Hulot.

This launching will be followed by several weeks of ecological lobbying, during which, it will meet a great number of candidates - declared or not - to the presidential election of 2007.

The January 22nd 2007, during a press conference with the Palate of discovered the, it announces that it will not be presented to the presidential election. He declares, during this press conference relative to his candidature, that he “will not support any candidate with the presidential election” leaving “the ecological requirement in the middle of his concerns”. He in addition states “to make confidence with the candidates with the election as for their engagement with respect to the ecological Pact”. With a relative question with his personal interest for a post of vice-premier minister in charge for the environmental businesses, Nicolas Hulot declares that “for this new station, delicate, one would need somebody who, beyond his ecological competences, has a solid experiment of the institutions”. He will continue to promote his Pact by gathering the January 31st his principal signatories and of the basic people.

During the countryside, Nicolas Hulot intervened on several occasions to point out the ecological requirement. The candidates, in spite of the signature of the pact, relegated to the second plan the question of climate warming and sustainable development.

Criticisms of Nicolas Hulot as ecologist and anybody public

It is presented, by those of its detractors claiming bearable Décroissance, like a surmediatized man, accepting funds on behalf of large companies, which they consider polluting, like EDF, L'Oreal or Rhône-Poulenc. Vincent Cheynet written: In fact, the devil in person would propose in Nicolas Hulot to appear in his support group while promising to him to turn off the tap by washing the teeth which the helicologist would accept at once. What there is the magic one with the ecological Pact, it is that there are no more neither polluted pollutants neither, neither right-hand side neither left, neither well neither badly, neither exploited exploiteurs nor, but only of the nice consumers who click on Internet to save planet. They estimate that the ecological Pacte proposed by Nicolas Hulot would have contributed to exclude from the start the topic of the ecology of the electoral campaign 2007, this topic being considered “already treated” since the candidates had signed the pact, and of this fact relegated to the second plan. They reproach Nicolas Hulot his absence of critic of the capitalist and financial economic system and its too close links supposed with Nicolas Sarkozy and the world of the big bosses. This is why the writers of the Decrease published on Internet a “anti-hulot pact”.

A leading article of Thierry Jaccaud, published in the Ecologist at the beginning of 2007, analyzes the proposals of Nicolas Hulot. It finds them too restricted and invites the TV host to go further it is on the GMO, the nuclear power, the organic farming or universalization.

In December 2006, in an interview granted to Southern West , Jose Bove is opposed to him by thinking that “one cannot defend the environment without calling into question the economic order of planet”.

In a general way, the detractors of Nicolas Hulot often reproach him the shift between the words and the acts. Indeed, Nicolas Hulot took part in the Paris-Dakar in 1977, and especially, uses the Hélicoptère, means of transport very pollutant, to carry out his reports on the alarming state of planet.

Publications

He is the author of many books, among which States of heart or more recently the Syndrome of Titanic . Its meeting and its common book with Pierre Rabhi in 2005 make it possible to confront its ideas with a large militant ecologist of ground. In November 2006, within the framework of its political commitment, it also published For an ecological pact , in collaboration with the members of the ecological Committee of day before its foundation. This work fits fully in its action since there are described major ecological engagements which it wishes to bring into play during the presidential election of 2007.

See too

Philosophy of Ethical nature
of the environment
Nicolas-Hulot Foundation for nature and the man
Ecology policy

External bonds

Foundation Nicolas Hulot for nature and the man

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