On the last point, first: remember what I had already mentioned here,
Christine Lagarde, President of the IMF promoting austerity by declaring, I quote, "we must tighten our belts"! Of course, she did not see fit to specify that this advice (?) Only applied to others ...
I hear what you are saying and I want to put it back in shape according to my vision of things: you are completely right on an essential point: the measures to be taken must be drastic, but they must also be accepted by public opinion ( this is what you also say by wishing that they are carried by a broad movement *), but what you perceive badly according to me, it is that once passed to the state mill, these "virtuous" measures go to be turned around like a glove and aggravate what needed improvement. Why? Because apart from the decrease of others which is not opposed to it, the techno-economic system directs the leaders and they can all the less abstain from it when they receive narcissistic gratifications (and only the super- narcissists are likely to figure in this political class, by definition).
The result would therefore be an intensification of all kinds of transitions, as long as this mobilizes capital capable of producing what it is for, a condition which is all the easier to fulfill than the subsidies levied on the social body for almost "patriotic reasons. "would come to the aid of this objective. I let you judge the collateral damage on ecosystems as well as on social relationships ...
I do not condemn a certain naivety when it is sincere (often it is feigned, when it is the act of professional manipulators), but I must warn against its consequences: "Hell is paved with good intentions".
* "We can allow ourselves to think", as it would say
Coluche that if a sufficient critical mass is assembled, the state is no longer needed. This supposes a conceptual lucidity which is difficult to envisage, because if the institutions are initially excluded, they will necessarily be reintroduced by various means (in particular "green" organizations!), To orient this movement in a direction which preserves their interests.