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Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
A more holistic way of thinking about growth is to recognise that it is broadly equivalent to the rate at which our economy is metabolising the living world.
Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
It’s really quite straightforward. Right now, the dominant assumption in economics is that all sectors of the economy must grow, all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need them to. This is an irrational way to manage an economy at the best of times, but during an ecological emergency it is clearly dangerous. Instead, we should deci
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the claims about the putative relationship between growth and human progress are just an alibi. Of course, they hope that growth will end up improving the incomes of the poor, and in so doing pacify social conflict. After all, elite accumulation is more politically palatable if the incomes of the poor are rising too. But this strategy cannot be sus
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This is why we see that, despite constant improvements in efficiency, aggregate energy and resource use has been rising for the whole history of capitalism.