{"id":41138,"date":"2018-12-01T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41138"},"modified":"2018-12-01T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:02:10","slug":"how-do-you-degrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41138","title":{"rendered":"How do you degrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How do you degrow?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>By\u00a0<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/i>We live nextdoor to my partner\u2019s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, \u201cwhy?\u201d, and then she was curious in which pot we were planning to boil the diapers. In her eyes, we could not possibly be choosing to use washable diapers \u2013 to her, an extinct garment reminiscent of poverty and manual labour \u2013 when there exists the comfort of the disposable. Therefore, it must be that we cannot afford disposable diapers. Needless to say, for the first six months of our son\u2019s life, every time Maria went to the supermarket, she bought us a packet of disposable diapers.<\/p>\n

Everything about the lifestyle we are accustomed to, as rich westerners, has to change. If we let that sink in for a little bit that is when the real disruption comes in, giving way to a radical shift in perspective. So, where do we go from here?<\/p>\n

As practitioners of the degrowth creed, the first challenge we face is precisely this, where do we start? This is a very real question that needs to be answered when degrowthers<\/em> decide to settle down. Since it\u2019s possible to start anywhere, why not start with the closest and most immediate: ourselves. Our life. Our lifestyle, our diet, our jobs. I want to bring forward how this radical decision \u2013 to choose the self as the first point of action towards a degrowth future \u2013 brings large obstacles, huge consequences, many humbling lessons and above all, so many mixed feelings.<\/p>\n

How do we go about practicing degrowth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you degrow? By\u00a0 We live nextdoor to my partner\u2019s grandmother, Maria, who was born during the Second World War in Northern Italy. This means that she knows what hard times look like. Maria could not believe we would be using washable diapers for our baby boy. With genuine surprise she asked me, \u201cwhy?\u201d, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23285,203,1334,260,5191],"class_list":["post-41138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-constanza-hepp","tag-degrowth","tag-diet","tag-employment","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41139,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions\/41139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}