INTERVIEW – In a very successful first book, The child is the future of man (Albin Michel), Aziliz Le Corre, journalist and mother of two children, analyzes the underlying causes of the demographic winter that the West is going through. And remember that childbirth is the condition for the survival of our civilization.
Your book begins with a chapter devoted to anxiety of global warming . The ecological argument is, in fact, brandished by the “No Kids” movement. Is this anxiety real or is it above all a matter of dressing up the child’s non-desire with good conscience? ?
We need to go back to the origins of the “No Kids” movement. It was founded in 2010 by Lisa Hymas, under the name Gink – for Green Inclination, No Kids. His slogan: “If you love children, don’t give birth to them, they’re trash.” » I interviewed its founder, who lives in Seattle, via screens. She uncompromisingly told me that she used the ecological issue to advance “childfree” demands in the American public debate. A virtuous argument which would have made it easier to accept one’s choice not to father children.
It is more conceivable not to give birth than to stop flying or change their eating habits
According to Ifop, 24% of French people say they are influenced…
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