What Is Degrowth? Degrowth Is Growing
Degrowth challenges endless and relentless economic growth
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD.
Anthropologist Jason Hickel has the insane notion that we should protect life rather than plunder it. Kohei Saito, who wrote Slow Down has similar ideas.
These are considered some of the world’s most dangerous ideas.
They are not considered dangerous because they’re wrong, but because they are untested. If we were to slow down economic growth in rich nations, and increase it in poorer nations, how would distribution be acted upon and unchallenged?
I do not have the answer. But I do think we should try new things. This is how natural selection tinkers with changes in any environment, by making slow adaptions until something useful is found, and then replicated.
Nevertheless, the ideas of degrowth are growing: growing green, growing community, and growing shared prosperity.
But, our time here is short
The environment now, with eight billion people rapidly increasing energy output and producing material goods, however, is time sensitive. That is, the time available — to save forests…
