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Has containment popularized the concept of "degrowth"?

2020-05-28T14:47:33.971Z


DECRYPTION - Back to the local, home cooking, gardening ... with the health crisis, some French people have changed their way of life and are more critical of globalization.


"Flour" shelves robbed. DIY or gardening products out of stock. Empty shopping centers, an abrupt end to mass tourism, tons of waste and in big cities, deserted streets, where ducks, foxes and birdsong have replaced the crowds and the horns of cars. Welcome to a new world, adept at decreasing, self-sufficient and in the midst of an ecological transition?

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If certain populations were able to take advantage of confinement to slow down and taste the “happy sobriety” defended by Pierre Rabhi, to refocus on more essential values ​​- health, family, time for themselves or others - others have done in the face of illness, tensions or even family violence, or unemployment and bankruptcy. In a column published on Liberation , on April 28, a group of intellectuals favorable to degrowth thus spoke of confinement as a “half-resonance

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Source: lefigaro

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