Ever since the Industrial Revolution, he said, our economies have been built around a new and radical idea—economic growth.

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

Everything I know about capitalism, bureaucracy, denial, habit, how much slower our psyches move than our machines, says — and it breaks my heart, and my shoulders slump as I write this — we won’t.