Since this is obviously of interest, here are some more quotes that may be in the Analysis programme:
Jean-Claude Chesnais: “the elderly population is exploding, especially at very old ages, and the young population is imploding and we need you know to face — Demographically, technically speaking, if we want to face the population ageing problem by you know demographic mechanisms, we have to import only babies without the fathers and the mothers. (LAUGHTER) Yes, it’s true. That’s pure evidence, that’s nothing political. You know it’s mechanical. So it’s of course not compatible with human rights. We can partly solve with adoption, but it’s … you know it’s nothing. It’s — In Germany the deficit is around four hundred thousand births a year. You know you cannot adopt four hundred thousand kids a year.”
The background to this is that there are three zones where population is falling in Europe: in Britain, France, and Scandinavia, it is faling slowly; in Germany and central Europe, it is falling quickly; and in the old Catholic heartlands it is dropping precipitously. In the industrial parts of Northern Italy and Spain, the fertility rate is below 0.8 per couple.
ACB: The ten million immigrants you were saying that no German government could say it wanted. This corresponds to the ten million babies that ought to be born.
JCC: Yeah, true.
AB: Right. That’s it.
JCC: It’s true, that’s exactly the point. (LAUGHS) Do we want … You know where do you find ten million babies except in Africa? (LAUGHTER) Are they ready to … you know to become ba… black in the few generations, you know? This is not so easy. Demography is really, really you know very drastic science, you know. You cannot play with it.
I really want to rename this programme “the drastic science”.