CRISIS AND DECREASE

We begin this year writing on a topic perhaps antipathetic, - a seemingly negative term - that of course is not very popular. The "decrease", it is a philosophy that raises us that “it is possible to live with much less, to live better”, or to work less, so that tod@s they could to do it. Mahatma Gandhi expressed it in an unbeatable way: "To live simply so that they all could, simply to live”.

Although the word “decrease“ has begun becoming popular not long ago, the concept is not completely new. His precursor might be the Rumanian Georgescu-Roegen, but it becomes popular in France for 2002 of the hand of Serge Latouche, André Gorz and Jacques Ellul, and in Spain in 2006 with Taibo, Riechmann, Surroca or recent Robin of the banks. Now, with a systemic crisis, in which it already does not cost the “sustainable growth” (clear oxymoron), it is when it seems that he takes seriously; and less evil than groups as ecologists in action, Christian communities and some others have begun placing it in the social, political agenda and environmental way. Both the citizenship and the governments, and surely the parties, - at least those of lefts - we should go incorporating them in our agendas and worries.
Before the unpublished systemic crisis in which we are it cannot be that it is paid by those who have not provoked it, it does not even cost the old deceit of which we can go out without a system change, since the capitalism has been demonstrated unjustly, unviably and untenable. Nor basting that tod@s we check our levels of consumption, which will be necessary to do it, for that one of that we are living over our planetary possibilities (ecological trace). It is essential that a change occurs in the productive model, in the work, the transport or the energy.
For the first time in the history the ground has said: Be enough!. We overcome in 30 % the biocapacity of the planet and it is necessary to restate our life system since, if already some time ago that it was clear that in a finite world, we could not to grow – and to consume in an infinite way, now the only option that we have left is to "decrease". And the more let's be late in doing it and in rectifying, the more we will mortgage the life of our future generations.
What how can we do it? It is the question of the million and symposiums and seminars will have to go tackling it. But although more specially we could treat these questions further on, they stay here, someone the alternatives that must to us join the “objectors of the growth”:
+ In the individual thing: To work less, to live more intensely, more conventional train and less BIRD, to support the alternatives echo - bio-justo, to reduce the ecological trace, to copy the knowledge of the nature and the ecosystems (biomímesis) or to claim the free time opposite to the obsessive work.
+ In the community thing, to favor the relocations, to encourage the cooperatives, to recover the exchange, or to promote the public transport.
+ And in the political thing: to change the excessive dependency on the fossil energies, to re-turn the armies, to reduce the industry armamentística (included NATO), the car one, the aeronautics or that of the brick, to eliminate the transvases politics, or to demand a legal frame, that not mere declarations as the last ones of Copenhagen, which should guarantee politics decrecentistas.
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