Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
As the author John Perkins spells out it’s a paradigm driven forward, ‘by a concept that has become accepted as gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary: that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should b
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The toxicity of growth
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Many align with the capitalistic belief that constant growth and critical mass is the only way to create change, even if they don’t use that language.
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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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The
global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed.