Beyond a certain threshold, theories of degrowth become "clownish", in the sense that Stephen King gave to this term in one of his most famous novels: comic at the beginning, terrifying at the end. This is the case of the disturbing proposals made by Jean-Marc Jancovici in his "Shift Project", a text that those interested in ecology should read more closely. Because three measures should make even the least democratic shudder.
The first is to stop treating people over the age of 65 in order to make them die gently. This is indeed what Jancovici proposes in an article in the journal Socialter published in 2019: "In Western countries," he declared, "there is a first way to regulate the population in a reasonably painless way: not to do everything possible to make sick elderly people survive, for example more organ transplants for the over 65s..." Fortunately, a law that would put in place such a measure would be—
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