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Growing Idea of Degrowth
We are currently trapped in the illusion of growth. The belief that all businesses should grow indefinitely. To expand their business, profits, and workforce… Everything in nature is circular, so there’s nothing natural about this growth craze.
Angelos Arnis • Designing for the last earth
Debates about ‘de-growth’ are very heated, and the Degrowth movement is often attacked by both conservatives and left-wingers
I don’t pretend to have a resolution to the debate, but let me just add something for all parties to reflect on:
If you define 'progress' as growth, then de-growth looks 'anti-progress'
If, however, we define ‘growth’ as ... See more
Brett Scottsubstack.comin today’s full world, with its steady-state or contracting economy, this is unrealistic. And without aggregate growth, poverty reduction requires redistribution.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
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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The thing about growth is that it sounds so good. It’s a powerful metaphor that’s rooted deeply in our understanding of natural processes: children grow, crops grow … and so too the economy should grow. But this framing plays on a false analogy. The natural process of growth is always finite. We want our children to grow, but not to the point of be
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