The article is in French, but that did not stop this talented journalist, who with just an application of Google Translator, and my old dog-eared French-English dictionary, soon got to the bottom of things.
https://www.vice.com/fr/article/3k9m35/ces-francais-qui-ont-choisi-la-sterilisation-volontaire-pour-sauver-le-monde
“I see having children as an egotistical choice.” Florence, 24, had her tubes tied in April 2018 so she would never become pregnant. And the reason, when the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change was released on 8 October last year, the AFP, via Twitter, published an infographic making it clear that “having one child less” would reduce CO2 emissions. Contacted via the Facebook Groups « Stérilisation volontaire (Ligature, Essure, Vasectomie) » [Voluntary sterilisation (Tubes, Essure, Vasectomy] and « VHEMT Francophone (Movement for the voluntary extinction of humanity), the men and women I interviewed have chosen voluntary sterilisation to respond to the environmental emergency. Sylvain, 34, wants to have a vasectomy. For this small farmer, if the global population has gone from 1.6 billion inhabitants in 1900 to almost 8 billion today, it’s “only because Man found ways of massively exploiting fossil fuels.” But he is convinced: “These energies will run out and there will come a time when we can no longer extract them from the soil cheaply.”…
ylvain, who has forced himself to live under the poverty threshold, warns: “We will be forced to lower our demands collectively and come back to pre-industrial levels of life. Demographic decline forms part of that.” Sereb, childfree at 31, who has had a vasectomy, shares this opinion. ” I realised that humanity didn’t know how to make the choice between living with a few dozen million at a high level of comfort and living with several billion with a low quality of life,” he says.…
For some guys too, resorting to voluntary sterilisation is part of their feminist activism. This is true of David: “There is a time when men must also assume their responsibilities,” he reacts. Lou approves: “It’s not a sacrifice for me to have a vasectomy because I don’t want a child. And due to my feminist motivation, I insist on involving myself in contraception.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/18/vice-celebrates-frenchmen-sterilised-themselves-save-world/
https://apnews.com/62fe0f38b7d2423fa5d65bba736ef138
I know that this is all hard to stomach, but I have faith in natural selection ultimately solving these problems for us.