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Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
At its core, the ideas behind degrowth call for new strategies: degrowth is a framework that’s about transformation. It builds on the work of ecological and anti-colonial theorists. In this way, the concept of degrowth is closely linked with climate justice, Indigenous rights, and reparations for fashion’s extractive and neo-colonial production mod... See more
good on you • Degrowth: The Future Fashion Could Choose
we do need to start building an economy that works for our current needs, rather than constantly readjusting our lives to serve the growth of the economy.
Bill McKibben • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to t
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
The contemporary “degrowth” movement, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgios Kallis explain, isn’t against growth, per se; it calls, instead, for a critique of growth as an end in itself, for the “decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and for the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective.” [4] In other word
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slowing degradation by shifting technologies or reducing overall growth, will be insufficient to achieve true efficiency and future abundance.