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Artist Gad Weil turned one of Paris' biggest square into a giant farm. His goal: to reconnect city dwellers with the land.

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00:00Hello, we are Place de la République, and this is where biodiversity and the reconciliation of agriculture and the environment reign.
00:11Water is necessary in life. No life without water. And here we are in the mist, in the mist of water vapors, and we are going to the green space garden.
00:36Maybe you will see one or two. We put the flowers, 10 minutes later, the bees arrived, the insects arrived, which means that as soon as we put nature somewhere, nature takes its place, animal life comes, and pollination is possible.
00:50Urban agriculture will change the physiognomy of cities, it will bring nature back in a respected and worked dialogue of man towards nature, because it is his role.
01:00And here is Eko the dolphin, he tells the children that every time a plastic bottle is not thrown in the selection tree, it will go to the end of the sea anyway, and in 20 years there will be more plastic in the oceans and in the seas than there will be fish.
01:30The cows of the Republic, they are there, and they invite children to understand where the milk they drink every morning comes from, their relationship to the animal world, and how plant and animal nature feeds us, and how we are responsible for its protection.
01:48I present to you Amélie, the farmer of the Republic, she is the mother of cows.
01:52They discover, in fact, there are some who do not know at all, it is a pleasure to teach them and to show them where the milk they drink comes from, or that they buy at the supermarket too.
01:59We want farmers to live from their profession for the next 100 years, as before, not like the last 15 years that are sad, but like the 100 or 200 years before.
02:08The return to a form of prosperity and respect for the agricultural world, and this agricultural world comes to express itself on behalf of the Republic, because the Republic is the Republic of big cities and it is the Republic of the rural world.
02:19This social question, this economic question, it is not independent of the ecological debate.
02:23It is normal to ask the ecological question, but we cannot ask it without asking the question of the income and the social status of the farmer.
02:30We are going to leave on the A1 motorway.
02:44It is the 20 kilometers between the Porte de la Chapelle and Roissy that are unnamable.
02:49It is an open-air trash can.
02:51It has been abandoned by the State for 40 years.
02:54The Happy Valley is a citizen project, made up of nature and urban agriculture.
02:58We want this transformation, and yes we can, when we have decided, when we are determined, we can change the world, but we are going to change it on the territory of this Happy Valley.
03:07This is where the change of the world begins.

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