Sustainable degrowth and qualitative growth may still look fancy and utopian ideas but they are what many people are experiencing these weeks of compulsory sobriety. Humanity may rediscover the pleasure of a slower life, spending more time at home with family, reducing useless travelling towards offices when teleworking can be a win-win solution, giving more value to time and more time to values, getting back to nature, spending more time in local, creative purposeful pursuits such as growing food, etc. Our species may also understand that it does not actually need to buy and accumulate cheap, polluting, useless stuff, which are not essential in a pandemic-risk world, and that local groceries and productions are the only life jackets in a globalized world, during an emergency landing to its localized origins. In a time of moderation, we may realize that most of our previous needs and habits, which we thought as unavoidable, were just trifles. A frivolousness for us that multiplied by billions represents a serious risk for Gaia. Think about fish: do we really need to overexploit the stocks in oceans on the other side of the planet to savour sushi in all-you-can-eat restaurants all over the world? Think about palm oil: do we really need to harass Southeast Asian forests and their unreplaceable biodiversity to fill our cars and our junk-food with a tropical fat? Nowadays, these answers are within our reach: we don't! We can live without these unnecessary “privileges” and this will not be an enormous limitation in our lives but represents a gigantic relief for our Earth.