Terrifying/Inspiring Thought of the Week
What if they assembled an all-star team of Degrowth thinkers to write a paper? It would look a little something like this:
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries.
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I don't think the result is particularly good, actually. I was hoping for a really crisp summary of "post-growth" theory and developments that I could share but it tends to get bogged down in academic verbiage and definitions.
There are some specific developments mentioned in the review that I found interesting but perhaps our all-star degrowth academics could think about getting a good editor to beat this text into shape for a more general public.
I'd tell "them" it's cart before horse. As I've mentioned to you, Matt, on my to-dos is to get degrowth/collapse/global warming leaders into conversation about an ask for humanity. We wouldn’t start with pages of ways we might organize differently, but by looking at how to get humanity into a new agreement about what we are doing here that isn't about how to organize our finances. If we were a society based on cooperation rather than exploitation, how then to reorganize everything?
Wanting more isn't evil but the natural outgrowth of the exponential growth that got us the industrial world, where a radical change in objective could only be achieved by a new shared understanding of its necessity for our survival -- not just for the 90%, but for the 10%, too. So, first subject on the agenda for a meeting would be how to get humanity working together. Then we can take up alternative systems that could be designed.