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Overcoming our societal addiction to the current system will require a broad consensus and a movement of movements around the shared goal of sustainable wellbeing for humans and the rest of nature.
This article perpetuates this counter-productive bashing of alternatives. At a time where plan B are precisely what we lack, this mentality is tragically uneconomical.
Limits is a transformative word, because it tells us that somebody has drawn that economy in their mind and they have drawn it as part of the biosphere. That is the beginning of a paradigm shift.
Indeed, inequality—of resource use, but also of income and wealth—is extremely high today and is actually worsened by economic growth.
Fran Korten is former executive director, publisher and contributing editor for YES! Magazine. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Banga needs to help the World Bank bring an end to the debt crisis and create real pathways for debtor countries to build resilience to climate change and volatility in the global economy.
The essential point is that economists’ competitive frame is falsely founded, and that our competitive social systems are spawning and reinforcing a dangerously myopic culture that is doing us a great deal of damage.
The power of universal public services is that we can improve people’s access to goods necessary for decent living, with provisioning systems that require less aggregate energy and material use and which allow us to accelerate decarbonization.
The degrowth movement exists to advance these difficult arguments – to take the large body of evidence as to why the current economic process is failing, and propose a range of alternatives which might avert the catastrophic failure of this system.
In Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Alissa Quart – director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project – addresses the meritocratic delusion of the “self-made man,”….
Overshoot will transform economic and political systems. It is better to choose the transformations we want rather than have them forced upon us by circumstances beyond our control.
Saito’s book is refreshing because it helps end an old feud between socialists who trust that new technologies and the automation of work can deliver an expanding economy with greater leisure time and those who argue for a socialism without growth.
