D.E.growth: A Small Change in the Slogan with Large Benefits
Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives.
degrowth perspectives
The Growthocene
These reservations about degrowth point to the need to clarify what growth traps to avoid when making a transition to sustainable degrowth.
Their Recession is not our Degrowth!
Our proposal is not necessarily to reduce GDP (an arbitrary indicator), but rather to ask new questions and search for alternatives to today’s society based on a predatory, unjust and unsustainable capitalist economic system.
Response by Giorgos Kallis to Brian Davey’s review of Degrowth
If climate disaster, degrowth and whatever else the future holds for us is “involuntary” and the best we can do is to become “resilient” in “transition towns”, then what is the point of an international “cap and share”, like the one your propose, or any other mitigation action for that matter?
Review: Degrowth – A Vocabulary for a New Era
Before anything else it seems important to say that there are lots of chapters in this book that I think are quite excellent as short pithy descriptions of the key concepts of degrowth.
Schools of Thought on Degrowth
The economy of the future is described by different groups with different words in different languages and they do not always exactly translate into an identical idea.