Editor's introduction by Flavio Albanese. "Sustainable mobility In his melancholy vade mecum-pamphlets on how to survive the idea of development and to design a serene de-growth, the French sociologist Serge Latouche identifies eight ways of building a fairer, more sustainable social and economic future: to re-evaluate, re-conceptualise, restructure, redistribute, re-localise, reduce, reuse and recycle.

Radical though Latouche’s stance may be, none of these terms alludes to any disengagement by the human race from their enterprises, or to a return to paradise on earth as it was prior to original sin. That world exists only in the mythologies of humankind, in figments of the imagination that are already part of an artificial, human branded second nature..."