Private sufficiency and public luxury
Regenerative Design Primer, published by UK Architects Declare in March 2024, states in relation to private sufficiency / public luxury: ‘The writer George Monbiot has observed that too often society is organised based on private luxury and public austerity. If we instead aimed for private sufficiency and public luxury, we could create a good quality of life for all global citizens within planetary limits.’
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