La nostra migliore speranza risiede nel cooperare come mai prima d’ora: vale a dire, sganciare la mappa geografica da quella politica. Per quanto possa sembrare irrealistico, dobbiamo guardare il mondo ricominciando da capo e sviluppare nuovi progetti basati sulla geologia, la geografia e l’ecologia, non sulla politica. In altre parole, dobbiamo in

we would be wise today to look to dramatic and rapid “demand contraction”—call it degrowth or simply an adaptive response to an overused planet—to shift toward a truly environmentally sustainable world that meets human needs.

As we covered earlier, our current model of economic growth, the one that is bringing some of the poor out of poverty, works to make the rich richer as well. Of course, this isn’t a practical problem for the poor if it brings them out of extreme poverty. The problem is that the size of the economy needed to achieve this outcome is not possible. So,