An open letter to the “post-growth” movement
Post-growth is described as a stance on economic growth concerning the limits-to-growth dilemma, i.e. on a planet of finite material resources, extractive economies and populations cannot grow infinitely. Post-growth advocates try to encourage, connect and further develop already existing ideas, concepts, technologies, systems, initiatives, and actions.
The vast majority of the ideology of “post-growth” has been developed within white dominant culture with a cursory (though mostly absent) acknowledgement of the destructive effects of European colonisation and continued extreme consumption of the Global North. It is an ideology centred in systemic privilege and the ignorance associated with that, and it appears to be unaware of its own privilege and ignorance.
For Giving Tuesday 2022, the Post Growth Institute published an article originally titled “80 Post Growth Organisations To Follow And Support” (as posted on LinkedIn and Instagram), listing POSSIBLE FUTURES within the article alongside powerful and influential post-growth organisations and initiatives who are overtly white supremacist and ecofascist.
