You don't need more than you can eat

If you follow this line (also figuratively speaking), the production and consumption of a given good is, for a start, in your responsibility and naturally limited. There is no need to educate people or tell them what to do. If you provide them with moments of leisure and self-reflection (e.g. by some basic income) their footprints will be small and agree with nature.

The GAP CONSUMPTION was dominated by the idea of educating people. But this won’t work in the end. People don’t like being treated as objects. And self-disciplinary measures  are not very appealing. I’d rather rouse the natural senses in every human being. Senses buried alive in most people of developed countries. You know, relying on your senses is more pleasant than castigating yourself.

Of course, in a second run, if a people’s majority of a nation  agrees on things they don’t need, they can administrate regulatory restrictions. If they have agreed on subsistence and sufficiency beforehand. Not feeling in competition with other nations.

At any rate, the successful way to degrowth goes with fun and not with discipline.