four years ago my husband nearly got
kill on the way to work because of
our consumer ideal then I
am sure you are wondering how
he was able to get there
we were a fairly classic family
a couple two children and then a project
real estate in progress
and I’m part of this
precarious generation that connects the cdd
not very well paid
despite my diplomas and him in cdi
he was putting tremendous pressure on
ensure financial continuity in fact
family and also to ensure a
normal consumption some objects
technological some pleasure objects
a vacation and in short he has fired so much
on the rope that one morning our life has
suddenly rocked because of this ideal
unattainable actually burn out
game over face consequences
financial
my first instinct was to turn
to promotions and products
discount
and then I thought and I thought
that this consumption was not without
consequence on the other
at the end of the chain the other one after
the production line for example
and then finally we are always
the other of someone and suddenly I
searched for solutions radically
different and my life has radically
exchange
zero waste ethical consumption and
ecological
we realized how much
respectful consumption of ourselves
and respectful of others and
planet
two years ago with herveline we created
facebook group budget management
mutual help and minimalism otherwise called
the group of unicorns do you ask
not why that counts so a hundred thousand
members
because if there were on one side
eco groups minimalist zero waste
etc and on the other management groups
pure budget there was nothing that
corresponded to our deep message
who is
you can change the world even if
you are a Sunday ecologist even though
you have no time even if you
are poor you can change the
world
even if you are two girls like us
who are addicted mnm under a varnish to
nails you can change the world even
if you are not a scientist even
if you are not an expert even if
you are not a journalist even though
you are not credible or even if
you are not consistent or even if you
are not perfectly perfect and that’s
it’s rather good news so
how do we do that because that’s what
we are interested a little bit in fact
when we are interviewed with herveline
we are always asked the question of
Why
why we must stop overconsumption
and then why else
then, there are plenty of people
super skilled actually one who will
answer all these questions and in
the more we think that ben you know
already if I speak to you for example one of
pharmaceutical lobbies
if I tell you about bears who die on
sea ice due to warming
climate if I talk to you about the
deforestation
all this in fact you already know you
already know it and yet you do not
do not change in lower you are in
do not plug what does it make you
feel guilty but then suddenly when we
feel guilty that we do not feel well we have
tendency to enter even more into the
consumption
it’s a little bit like a snake
bite the tail so we decided to
take the problem on the other side we have
decided to tackle how so
how do you change your
consumption on a daily basis
durable
our goal is actually you
raise awareness that change
your consumption will have an impact
about you on your life on your
functioning right now and our
proposal to get there is to leave
of your concrete problems
so that can be your budget
actually the food budget your
concrete problems and to invent
together effective solutions
ecological and ethical but that is
adapted to your life then we
fits everyone you are
rich whether you are poor you
be green as you get them
ovary
that you are unemployed that you
work 50 hours a week each
of you can be a unicorn
so we finished the blah, yes we go
to the solutions ok so we prepared you
a list of four steps to become
a free and happy consumer then
the first step is to choose
only one thing but of you
throw in the water and you know why
it’s because often the first
posed and liberating action and opens the
path
and the good news is that there is
so much alternative that you will not have
just that the embarrassment of choice
for example you can decide to
manufacture your cleaning product at
base of bicarbonate vinegar
you can take a thing that you
consume industrial and do it
now home you can even heavy
and your cosmetics and you
quays make up with a single oil
vegetable
the only rule is to take a
thing but who is talking to you the second
step to become a free consumer
and happy is to say that we have
all the brakes and that’s ok we got
all in the lead yes but I can
not because nani we have you listed a
little podium makes of the three
main brakes that come back the most
often on the third step of this
podium we have the entourage
refractory yes this is your
spouse for example who did you follow
not at all in the process and suddenly
you say but what’s the point of doing
things alone in my corner
we are all worried about a loved one in
our entourage who tells us that bio
it’s a mega scam because of
anyway it’s never 100% organic or
while these three times too expensive we have
all in our entourage of a grandma or
a beautiful mother or even a mother who
cover our children with gifts made in
china on packed and there we say but
how am I going to do so cool runway
cool we breathe we can already maybe
to say two things first is
the change you want to see in
the world we can start with us
we can do things alone
Well it’s better than nothing and the
second, let’s be benevolent with
our entourage who is a little bit
incredulous
me for example you would have told me there is
three four years that I was going to become
minimalist vegan green I was going
even write a book about the
deconsumption and that I will be there this
evening talking to you frankly
frankly no I would not have believed you
and yet I’m here so let’s be
benevolent with our surroundings
the second brake the second brake on
our podium is the lack of time
yes yes there your thing there it takes 20
way of time and me my days
after she is so 24 hours so so
here I am, I do not have enough time
maybe you’re part of
this population category and that’s
of the lived who works and 50 hours per
week
transport not included and that they
had absolutely no time to
run four different stores on
weekend to cook everything so when
even the good news is that the
change does not only go through the
cooking there are plenty of things you
will already be able to change in your
daily and that will take you 0 time
additional for example the know the
menstrual cup or the
washable wipes will not take you
one more second in your
operation
and then especially there is a second
way of approaching things get bigger
you life yes because today we
tends to really do everything at the
map of varied menus of new toys
even if it’s at the credit price or
multiply activities even if you have
already crazy days
so entrenched in us in fact this
requirement for perfection always
to do more beautiful more better here if we
start in the process and we
not succeed all the first time
it looks like it’s a failure
staff we are not good but actually
the key is not to succeed in doing more
it’s accepting to do less by
example if your problem and management
linen
why not consider stopping
iron your panties or tea towels or
again for your next purchases of
choose materials that does not require
no ironing is simply
so the first brake on our podium
the sinews of war I named the
budget is yes the bio is always
three times too expensive so we panic
we will not ask you tomorrow
morning to buy everything bio us
what you are told is rather alesi
little by little for example for the budget
food what we often advise
it’s starting to predict what we’re going
eat based on what we already have
on his cupboards in his cupboards it is
better it’s better and so once
did that we make a list of what
we miss
and this list we try to encrypt it
so it may sound weird but
that’s okay if you ‘re not at
the euro almost once we have encrypted
see if it fits in our budget and
if it does not make it right, we go back to the
case menu it is in this sense that it
walk for the overall budget this is a
little bit the same thing in fact we’re going
ask you to list all your
loads and even the stuff you
think never like for example the
barber the vet
the fines the car expenses the
gifts the stuff like that you list
all you smoothed over the year
especially you stop doing the ostrich
and you watch your budget between
Cadieux once you’ve done that
you will really see what
looks like your budget and who knows you
maybe even go power and baskets
spared to realize your dreams
then the third step to become a
free consumer and happy it’s
dropped your guilt
maybe you are in the
situation where disruptive
endocrine worries you
but you can not stop
smoke maybe too that you have
want to eat a local maximum but
that banana is just not possible
to remove it from your diet
ultimate washer of the world
well it does not matter you have the
right to have your own contradictions
in our gardens
it’s called a little bit
the reverse of the bitch then there
know you know it’s the one that has
always the complexion bursting the hair
dream that has managed to fluff
his kids steamed broccoli this is the
yes organic bio that before whom we feel
always all void
well I’ll tell you a scoop this
bitch she does not exist so you
can immediately release the pressure
remained benevolent with myself
there will be times you will be at
background and there will be moments too
you’ll want to drop everything and that’s
just normal and finally the fourth step
to become a free consumer and
happy it’s surrounded you I you
will not learn anything if I tell you that the
group dynamics it’s an engine
powerful so find your place
somewhere an association a
citizen grouping a community
virtual like ours, but
do not stay alone so maybe that
you still have doubts or that you
think it’s a little utopia
and that’s why we wanted to
tell you what’s going on a little
little when people start to follow
these few tips
because you see it done now
over two years we share all that
with nearly a hundred thousand people
we should welcome our 100,000th
nobody normally today and with
the help of 200 volunteers absolutely
wonderful that gives a lot of
their time well you see in fact one
is not there to do a study
sociological it is not at all our
time our job is to create the
conditions of change so we will not
present you with statistical studies of
average duration of the overdraft and
it’s not our job not our taste but
we know it works we know it
walk why we know it works
because we read over the days of
hundreds and hundreds of
testimonials from people who have
completely changed of life change of
job change region
we see people who, for example, were able to
take parental leave while they
did not even imagine being able to live with
a single salary a few months ago we
sees families that have managed to
save enough to bring their
waves their kids on vacation for the
first time and that’s it we did not
no need for numbers to see that
because it’s contagious people
invite their friends their family our
community grows so
exponentially even as the
promotions are banned and that saw the
current economic context I can you
to say that it is an excellent indicator
because hope is palpable
draws us a little bit by the
budget but in fact when we see the
path that do after in their
ecological awareness
they call themselves six months as far as
I left in his concerns there
today I feel concerned it is
that really it can concern all the
world
because in reality we are
tens of thousands of people we
but mostly you have the same dream
we dream of a more just society
we dream of being able to do things to
our scale despite our constraints and
well you know what it’s really not
a dream
you have the power you have the
power to finance the world you
want to see with your purchases and we will
do all together from the inside with
our constraints and leaving aside
the guilt of all that remains
still to do because we are everywhere
of all ages from all walks of life
men of women of all professions
all layers of society and that
that’s our strength
we are the key then to conclude
and because others speak well
better than we would like to read you a
testimony of a unicorn called
Thai and who answered the question
what is laly body neither for you at
bottom a scream of the heart a scream without
noise a look that wants to heal from
the love that still wants to come out of
the life energy that is struggling
undeniably against despair the
fear incoherence ignorance
insensitivity while trying to
to perpetuate the carefree thank you
a lot
and now up you and change the
world
[Applause]
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