sustainability, degrowth, frugality...these are choices of privilege.
you can only call for less when you have more than enough.
if you're poor you are already living in degrowth and frugality.
you can only call for less when you have more than enough.
if you're poor you are already living in degrowth and frugality.
100 years ago it was unthinkable for common people to eat red meat every day, they just couldn't afford it. Today, we are privileged enough that we can afford to do so, but just because we can it doesn't mean we should. It's not good for you.
Same happens in the tech world: we can afford to buy new tech devices to keep up with the bloat that inevitably envelops most things, but should we?
that said, a good counter-exemple is wood stove efficiency. There are simple design that are more efficient than a firecamp, and very cheap. In some cases you can do a lot more with a little bit of more(sometimes less), so it's worth it.