How Does Degrowth Apply to Our Minds?

how would we ever take on the imagination-devouring dragon of endless growth and economic development and replace it with something more humane, more interesting, and better suited to meet the needs of the people and the planet?

Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that we don’t measure up, that we might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now

how would we ever take on the imagination-devouring dragon of endless growth and economic development and replace it with something more humane, more interesting, and better suited to meet the needs of the people and the planet?

If we continue to rely on making small, token changes, however, we will merely slow our headlong rush toward a diminished and impoverished future. What’s needed isn’t change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light. We need

This realisation first struck home in 1972, when a team of scientists at MIT published a groundbreaking report titled Limits to Growth. The report outlined findings from the team’s cutting-edge work using a powerful computer model called World3, which was designed to analyse complex ecological, social and economic data from 1900 to 1970, and to pre