After a summer 2018 marked by the heat wave, the wildfires and the resignation of Nicolas Hulot, part of the youth, panic-stricken by the inaction of governments in the face of the climate crisis, decided to join forces to awaken consciences. A HQ, La Base, is rented in the heart of Paris. In the making since COP21, an informal climate international links different European protest movements: Extinction Rebellion, Ende Gelände, Alternatiba, ANV-COP21… Among the French leaders are young people under the age of 30. Some, like Élodie and Pauline, have resigned from a prestigious position to devote themselves to a fight they consider crucial. After a first victory – the petition called “The Affair of the Century” and its 2 million signatures in two weeks – the activists of La Base organized 134 portrait stalls of Emmanuel Macron in town halls, retransmitted on social networks, in order to denounce “the emptiness of his ecological policy”. A triumphant march in Place de la République closes with the announcement of a mass action of civil disobedience. But at the time of the TV news, there is disappointment: the media do not mention the demonstration at all, focusing instead on the excesses following a demonstration of the “yellow jackets”.