Slow Down, Do Less: A Q&A With the Author Who Introduced 'Degrowth' to a Mass Audience
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Slow Down, Do Less: A Q&A With the Author Who Introduced 'Degrowth' to a Mass Audience
Regardless of the perceived (or modeled) severity of global environmental challenges, there are no swift, universal, and widely affordable solutions to tropical deforestation or biodiversity loss, to soil erosion or to global warming. But global warming presents an uncommonly difficult challenge precisely because it is a truly global phenomenon, an
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People need to understand that all degrowth really is, is a switch in the goal of the economic system. We need to change the goal of the system from the accumulation of capital to the flourishing of all people, not just people in the global north, also people in the global south, and the flourishing of all life on this planet, because our economic ... See more