More consumption: more happiness?

… and this threatens our very survival While anecdotal evidence of the decline in insects was broadly felt (windscreens of cars were are far less maculated now than they were a few decades ago), it is only in 2017, with the publication of a study by a group of amateur entomologists in Krefeld (DE),…

… for a low-impact, sustainable society of the future Andreas Thiedmann is the initiator of the “Zeitensinsel – “Island of times” – project. This will be an open-air museum dedicated to re-creating the living conditions and the technologies of our ancestors, from pre-history to the Roman empire, f…

… to prevent a race to the bottom to satisfy multinationals When political entities are small compared to the issues to be addressed or compared to concentrated economic powers, they are individually powerless. This is probably a driver of populism and of the feeling that many people have of losi…

… because those remaining are not concentrated enough Economists have the illusion that a price system is the universal answer to situations of scarcity. Provided the price for a good is high enough, humans will engage in the efforts necessary to access the good, whatever the difficulties, so that …