Are sobriety and well-being irreconcilable?
Overview
The climate and energy crises have revived the reflections on sobriety and abstinence that have fascinated philosophers and theologians for three thousand years.
It is therefore a question of building a new sobriety that does not cause us to lose the benefit of the tripling of life expectancy, for the most part in good health. This implies maintaining a high standard of living that is nevertheless sober. It is therefore important to accelerate the transition to decarbonised and densified collective housing, to decarbonised public transport, to robotise, digitise and electrify the entire production system, to renovate all public buildings, and to move rapidly towards decarbonised energy (nuclear, hydroelectric, photovoltaic, wind, biomass, etc.).