I read diagonally but this subject ("Degrowth") is interesting although it now looks like a chestnut tree, so a recurring subject that comes back with new reflections, visions from other prisms ... (although, on the bottom, there is ultimately nothing very new under the sun because ideas and antagonisms seem to have become firmly encysted in immutable positions depending on the camp in which their defenders find themselves).
The declarations on degrowth, its necessity, its inevitability according to some, reminds me of the unanimous declarations of political, economic and financial leaders when the Covid19 epidemic started: "The world after will not be the same!" , another form of "Degrowth is inevitable").
And then finally the world after looks furiously like the world before, and even worse, because the human activities that characterize the World Before are finally going rather well, even better than in the days of the world before. "At the same time", as our national Manu would say, why one fine morning by opening their shutters on the new world, the powerful and rich of this world would say to themselves: "Here, today I am going to reduce my comfort, share my wealth and my power! ... ". '
What conclusion can we make from this observation?
Quite simply that there is a gap between the ideas, the analyzes, the reflections, the speeches, the theory, etc., and the behaviors, the actions, the reality of the human activities which are fundamentally very down to earth and rest very banally on all-out and short-term profit.
This observation is a faithful illustration of the philosophical aphorism of Blaise Pascal from his Pensées: "The heart has its reasons which reason does not know"; It's as simple as that !
Human behaviors respond more to the objective of immediate pleasure than that of anticipatory thinking, and we now know that the
striatal is at the origin of this thoughtless gluttonous behavior, a simple reflex in short.
The man responds, in my opinion, to this adage: "I know that it will not be able to continue reasonably, but it is so good that as long as I can enjoy it, I continue and I will see later", or simply: " That's already taken! ".
In short, unless we grind our striatum less, humanity will continue to grow until it reaches an abstract and distant infinity ...
"But how far will they stop", said Coluche!