Sobriety or frugality: unlearning the addiction to the superfluous
Sobriety is on everyone’s lips at a time when the energy and ecological crisis is growing! It appears above all as one of the remedies. However, some fear that this term hides a softened concept of decrease! Update with Florent Favier, environmental transition advisor.
Chosen sobriety: a solution?
The chosen sobriety appears less violent What a forced sobriety! To date, no policy has prepared us for voluntary decline. It’s all about learning to do as much with less. Anticipating it, choosing it and planning it thus seems less brutal than suffering it head-on one day.
Florent takes an extremely telling example ! Imagine: your boss comes to see you to discuss your salary. He announces to you that he must lower it by 0.25% every less for 10 years. It’s still painful, but certainly much less than it turned out to tell you 10 years from now to tell you about a 30% pay cut overnight.
Thereby, Apply the chosen sobriety means giving up certain aspects of our current comfort. On the other hand, this renunciation is done very slowly! Obviously, chosen or suffered, sobriety risks destabilizing our society. However, it will certainly be an opportunity to see great ideas and innovations spring up to live while preserving the planet !