Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Dans l’esprit du projet de la décroissance, on pourrait donc tabler sur trois mesures principales : une relocalisation systématique des activités utiles, une reconversion progressive d’activités parasitaires comme la publicité ou nuisibles comme le nucléaire et l’armement, et une réduction programmée et significative du temps de travail. Tout cela,

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Degrowth is about abandoning GDP [gross domestic product] as the single measure of our progress. Degrowth is also about reducing what is unnecessary.

GDP can be increased by producing what is unnecessary, like private jets. I’m saying, OK, maybe we don’t need these things because that’s only for rich people, and that’s also destroying the planet. S... See more

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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