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That is what my grandmother, who has been through the war, used to say whenever she thought her children and grandchildren were irresponsible consumerists.

That is also what she said when industrial relocations multiplied on the grounds that low-cost countries were willing to sacrifice themselves for our benefit.

At the moment, we do not have a world war, but we do have climatic and geological changes, as well as pandemics. Everyone starts to think, and this brings out certain realities:

– what makes us strong: cohesion, which allows us to be more reactive and combative than egoism;

 – our weaknesses: our organizations. Too focused on financial efficiency, our organizations have become very fragile. Too legally protected, they have become blocking.

And then the social and environmental reality shows us that:

 – we produce poorly;

 – we consume poorly.

We already know all this. The question is how to make sure that we take it into account in the way we develop our life together.

Thousands of researchers, from various disciplines, are working on these subjects, especially economists. They work in laboratories, others in trade unions, Masonic lodges, churches or in informal circles.

As far as the findings are concerned, they are quite convergent, but regarding solutions, there is little that is concrete. This is reflected in the 17 SDGs (see section 4.6.2)!

As is often the case in periods of profound change, it is not within institutions that creative proposals are drawn up, but outside of them, in places designed to unleash serendipity. These are in particular in think tanks.

The path that is developed here is the result of the compilation of work by a number of them, including the “sustainable development” working group of the Conseil de l’Ordre des experts-comptables. The work carried out in this forum indirectly contributed to the creation of the Institute for the Circular Economy. Other important sources include the Atena Forum, which focuses on digital sovereignty; Orée, which brings together the concerns of sustainable development professionals; FAIR (Forum des autres indicateurs de richesse, Forum for Alternative Wealth Indicators) and the Fabrique du Futur, which, as its name suggests, imagines the opportunities of the future.