Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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and Mark Jacobson, Gail Tverberg’s blog Our Finite World, the recent book Bright Green Lies, and others.

By extracting less we leave more for other species, other people and future generations, thus creating well-being for all. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all.And so too, increases in quality of human life level off, regardless of how much more quickly GDP grows. I've worked my way through a few titles recently that tied into anti-capitalism sentiments, such as Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing and David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs. We need to change how we see nature and our place in it, shifting from a philosophy of domination and extraction to one that’s rooted in reciprocity and regeneration. Despite clearly understanding class politics, Hickel goes on to suggest *policy solutions* to capitalism’s internal contradictions which he so amazingly describes in the first part of this book.

Any welfare improvement over the last 500 years we wrestled from them with violence and action; suffragists burnt cars and bombed buildings for twenty years, civil rights movement had the black panthers and Malcolm X, the unions shot back at the police during strikes. We must remember that it’s not that corporations are evil, but that we’re in a system that needs perpetual growth to avoid social collapse. I’m not sure how I felt about him providing “steps” to shifting our economy centered around exchange-value to one centered around use-value. In fact, once GDP outstrips the peak of quality of human life, it actually starts to hurt that quality. Not an easy read but fundamental for me to understand that there is a problem when capital is becoming a lot more important than labor.

I was hoping to have that dealt with coherently, and have explained how there are other ways, better ways, fairer ways to get that prosperity and wellbeing. I have not yet turned full-on-against capitalism but I feel like I've heard both sides and no longer feel that neoliberalism is the best we can come up with. It also has vegetarianism and compassion for animals from Genesis 1:29, plus later passages protesting injustice and the practice of animal sacrifice. Marx’s M-C-M’ (Money invested into Commodity production for the goal of more Money) representing capitalist production's logic in contrast to pre-capitalist market exchange C-M-C (Commodity exchanged via Money for another Commodity). Hickel never floats away into theory, he's always grounded, asking how each idea materially affects ecosystems and human lives.

An idea which is so deeply ingrained in society few of us ever question it (even though, as we learn, this idea is based on questionable evidence). What if we adopted a new paradigm in terms of how we view the Earth - what if we were to treat everything in our environment as "connected"? Het dominante wereld- en mensbeeld – waarin de menselijke geest geacht wordt de natuur en ook het lichaam te onderwerpen en exploiteren – dient plaats te maken voor een alternatieve filosofie, die je als lezer graag in de plaats wil laten komen eens je weet dat het mogelijk is: een filosofie gebaseerd op wederzijdse afhankelijkheid, evenwicht en respect, die stelt dat alles met elkaar verbonden is en men niet meer mag nemen dan men kan teruggeven.

There is an active debate over whether renewables can sustainably generate anything close to the energy required by our current consumer culture. We are in a dark cave with no way out and most people are oblivious, content with distractions like meaningless TV programming and consumerism. under capitalism, it is to endlessly grow profits and survive competition); the delusional assumptions behind mainstream negative emissions technology (esp. So now we get to learn whether he’s an anarchist, communist, anarcho-communist, is he a statist or does he want to decentralise…?

Less is More” is a propaganda piece convincing us to become complacent, read this and think “yes, I don’t need to do anything, I just vote for the good guys and they’ll pass the legislation and the problems will go away, Jason Hickel said the solutions are legislative, he’s a clever dude, he must be right.In minder dan 300 vlot geschreven pagina’s wordt duidelijk gemaakt dat het blijvend nastreven van continue economische groei niet alleen overbodig, maar ook onhaalbaar is en zelfs enorm schadelijk voor onze planeet. timp ce scriu asta, pe fundal se aude piesa Civil War, a celor de la Guns N’ Roses (au mai scos un Greatest Hits anul ăsta, 15 piese). Easy to read, this makes a compelling argument for the damage that any positive rate of GDP growth will ultimately cause to our environment. Who would sorrows bearTo choke and die a cancerous life,But that the dread of life without the car,The undiscovered country in whose bournOur dreams might live, puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we have,Than fly to others that we know not of? These policies can achieve “significant reductions in material throughput” (substantially reduced resource use) “without any negative impact on human welfare” (p.