Yves Cochet: to save the planet, we must limit our births and better welcome migrants
In an interview with L'Obs, former Environment Minister Yves Cochet proposes measures to encourage fewer children to reduce the ecological cost of the population and to accommodate more migrants. A shock solution for this defender of degrowth, which makes react.
"Let's reverse our policy of encouraging birth rates! In an interview noted in L'Obs magazine dated Jan. 3, Yves Cochet unveils radical solutions to save the planet from climate change . It proposes measures to "make fewer children" and "better welcome migrants who knock on our doors" in order to limit the ecological impact of an ever-increasing world population.
Specifically, the former Minister of the Environment under Lionel Jospin, proposes "to reverse the logic of family allowances" : "The more children you have, the more your allowances decrease until disappearing from the third birth. And to add: "Do not make extra children, it's the first ecological gesture."
"To quantify the effect of our activities on the planet (I), we must take into account the wealth of a population (A), the technology it uses to produce energy and goods (T), but also its size (P) … We can of course act on the factors "wealth" and "technology" , but we must also take into account the demographics. However, it is a truism to say it: to reduce the number of inhabitants on Earth, it is necessary to make fewer children. "
This follower of the theory of the collapse of our societies assumes a "political choice" , assuring that we must "stop multiplying and filling the Earth", contrary to the biblical injunction of growth of the human population.
I do not aim at the poorest countries, which make more children than the others. On the contrary. The rich countries are the first to have to decrease demographically. And adds that birth control would allow us to better accommodate migrants who knock on our doors
