every story is a degrowth story

For February, the Contraptions Book club is reading Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz, to be discussed the week of February 24. The chat thread is open for early comments. Three big, unmanaged forces of destruction and creation are irrupting into ...

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