author of Should we stop having children to save the planet? (Payot, 2022), a simple work on a complex subject, Emmanuel Pont carries a third voice between environmental indifference and paralyzing catastrophes.
LE FIGARO. – Your book is called Should we stop having children to save the planet? However, you consider the question of demography to be largely secondary in ecology… Why did you put it at the heart of your work?
Emmanuel Pont. – Because that’s the question many people ask themselves. Or because of the ecological weight attributed to the birth of a child. Or because of the state of the world in which children are born? However, this is a topic about which a lot of nonsense is said… I think of the AFP chart that in 2017 took a study by two researchers, Seth Wines and Kimberly Nicholas, and presented the birth of a child. as the worst gesture against the climate.
According to this study, giving birth to a child is equivalent to emitting 60 tonnes of C02 per year, six times the carbon footprint of…
Source: Le Figaro
