1st part to see here: https://www.econologie.com/les-decroissa ... -4323.html
Decreasing, less consuming to live better? A report by Sophie Romillat and David Geoffrion
Sociologists call them "decreasing", in France, they are more and more numerous to refuse to consume more and more. They reject the spiral of the consumer society. When the rest of the population thinks only of increasing their purchasing power, the decreasing prefer to work less, earn and spend less. It is not a question of throwing away everything they have, but of gradually reducing their consumption by adopting a thrifty lifestyle, based on the D system. A whole program which is increasingly appealing to the French. Impossible to know the number of "decreasing" in France, but it is a real trend, a strategy of adaptation to the crisis less and less marginal. The "decreasing" are not tight-fisted, but ecologists who favor the system D. Concretely, they save energy, water, electricity and gasoline, limit their waste, they move as little as possible in car or plane, boycott supermarkets, eat organic food produced locally to limit transport and packaging. So who are these "decreasers"? What are their solutions to buy less and less, to limit their waste or to avoid the car? Meet these consumers who have decided to change their lifestyle. Alexandre lives in the Parisian suburbs driven by a singular objective, to consume as little as possible. He spends his time tracking down waste. Bénédicte lives in a traditional tent in the Hautes Alpes, 1 meters above sea level in the middle of nowhere. There is also a new generation of descendants, they are young, they live in big cities and they earn a very good living. Like Audrey, a sales engineer in Lyon, who collects whole crates of damaged vegetables left by traders at the end of the market.
Despite the Trailer, the 3rd example of the report of the decreasing (2 sales engineers who do the "trash" by earning 5000 € per month: what will they do with their pogon later in your opinion?) Is much closer to stingy pettiness what a less consumerist philosophy of life!
Ah, these journalists must always take the extremes ... finally given the title ...
Personally, I do not feel decreasing but yet I consume less (compared to the average): living better is better compared to what? Whose?
Soon all ecologists (including econologists) will be classified as decreasing, a highly derogatory term!
The real decreases are them...
To see again here: http://envoye-special.france2.fr/index- ... brique=776
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