Is it still allowed to celebrate a birth, when the Earth has just registered 8 billion human beings on board, of which it already does not know what to do?
We ended up, by drowning it in the imperatives of the consumer society, by excusing Christmas for not being quite a secular celebration;
but would we forgive him for a dogmatic departure from the ecological diktat?
A few years ago, a new injunction surreptitiously slipped into the green discourse: not having children would be the ultimate civic gesture, the only behavior that befits anyone who would love the planet and its inhabitants a little.
Researchers at the Swedish University of Lund have in fact imagined calculating the “climate cost” of a child: they evaluated it at 60 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.
The matter then appeared to be even more serious than driving (2.4 tonnes of CO2 per year) or eating meat (0.8 tonnes of CO2 per year), an attitude that is nevertheless readily decried nowadays. .
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