The Tao of Degrowth

Anna Austin Ronan
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read
Photo by Won Young Park on Unsplash

I came to the degrowth movement from a spiritual perspective to begin with. Before I get too woo-woo for any environmentalist academics, allow me to explain. I first heard the term “degrowth” from reading Charles Eisenstein, and it stuck in my brain as the first vision I’d heard articulated for how to do this whole “total societal transformation” thing. It has always been a total vision to me, one that encompasses change far beyond economic contraction…

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