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Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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I thoroughly enjoyed this biography of capitalism and found it both informative, with loads of well presented data, and a bit scary as well to know why things are as they are in the world in terms of excessive inequality. Less is More" is the last piece of knowledge I needed to finally accept that we can invent a better system than neoliberalism. Is GDP really a good way to evaluate the state of an economy which fails to value so much of what's important? Even though I agree in pretty much all what the book claims, I find the book very negative and depressing.

If we’re willing to imagine speculative science-fiction fairy tales to keep the existing economy chugging along, why not just imagine a different kind of economy altogether? ii) “Overpopulation”: I don't think we can stress enough how important the unequal distribution of per capita ecological footprint is here (see Too Many People? His discussions of the philosophical and ideological background of the growth economy misses the mark on several key points.It's the kind of book you don't want to put down, but still have to because you need to better grasp all the levels of what is described.

In particular, Commons have intrinsic value despite abundance, whereas capitalist exchange-value requires artificial scarcity (central in the commodification market-creation of the Enclosures/colonialism/Neoliberal globalization). His media appearances include Viewsnight, the Financial Times, the BBC World Service, Sky News All Out Politics, BBC Business Matters, Thinking Allowed, Renegade TV, NPR, Doha Debates, TRT World, the LA Times, Citations Needed, and Russell Brand's podcast Under the Skin. Should we hope that some new plague will wipe out half of humanity so that we will improve the lot of the working class? It is definitely an eye-opener which has caused me to reconsider how I live in my life and what I should work towards in the future.it’s a remarkable invention that enables loggers to fell trees, ten times faster than they are able to do by hand. i) Liberal technocracy baggage: “degrowth” is close to the “Limits to Growth” MIT technocrats of the 1970's, who combined useful systems science (which eventually evolved into Earth System Science) with reductionist “overpopulation” analyses mentioned above.

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