Friday, August 02, 2019 8:13:27 AM
Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it
Time to get off the economic growth train?
We used to live on a planet that was relatively empty of humans; today it is full to overflowing, with more people consuming more resources. We would need one and a half Earths to sustain the existing economy into the future. Every year this ecological overshoot continues, the foundations of our existence, and that of other species, are undermined.
Like a snake eating its own tail, our growth-orientated civilisation suffers from the delusion that there are no environmental limits to growth. But rethinking growth in an age of limits cannot be avoided. The only question is whether it will be by design or disaster.
https://theconversation.com/life-in-a-degrowth-economy-and-why-you-might-actually-enjoy-it-32224?fbclid=IwAR0RjInYsTiL0nLAcLsLVHbUcbPATEAi1Oqyrxa2WUmlZHYHOQk32z2t-Fc
Time to get off the economic growth train?
We used to live on a planet that was relatively empty of humans; today it is full to overflowing, with more people consuming more resources. We would need one and a half Earths to sustain the existing economy into the future. Every year this ecological overshoot continues, the foundations of our existence, and that of other species, are undermined.
Like a snake eating its own tail, our growth-orientated civilisation suffers from the delusion that there are no environmental limits to growth. But rethinking growth in an age of limits cannot be avoided. The only question is whether it will be by design or disaster.
https://theconversation.com/life-in-a-degrowth-economy-and-why-you-might-actually-enjoy-it-32224?fbclid=IwAR0RjInYsTiL0nLAcLsLVHbUcbPATEAi1Oqyrxa2WUmlZHYHOQk32z2t-Fc
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