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Why Do We Define Success As Growth? Success Might Actually Mean “De-Growing”

IDEAS Posted: January 28, 2020 2:02 pm

On this midsummer morning, 40 thinkers and activists have come together to challenge the core economic orthodoxy of our time: that growth is the most critical measure of human flourishing, an axiom that seems increasingly untenable in the age of accelerating climate change. The Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert symbolizes the very empire these adherents of “degrowth,” as the movement is known, wish to overthrow: consumption, wealth, inequality, travel, and cement, the whole modern industrial condition.
 – The New Republic

IDEAS Published: 01.27.20

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 01.27.20

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