{"id":55009,"date":"2020-09-13T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T12:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55009"},"modified":"2020-09-13T07:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T12:57:02","slug":"you-dont-have-to-live-like-this-review-of-kate-sopers-post-growth-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55009","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t have to live like this\u2014review of Kate Soper\u2019s Post-Growth Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You don\u2019t have to live like this\u2014review of Kate Soper\u2019s Post-Growth Living<\/a><\/h3>\n

In her new book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, Kate Soper calls for a vision of the good life not reliant on endless economic growth and points us to the ways in which our current patterns of living are not only environmentally harmful, but also make us miserable. A provocative and necessary book, Nick Taylor writes, that provides us with the means to rethink consumption, work and sustainable prosperity without losing sight of what makes us feel good.\u00a0(This blog also appeared on the\u00a0PERC website<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What kind of changes will the Covid-19 pandemic bring about over the long-term? While this question is on the minds of many, for those who study and work towards making our societies and economies more sustainable it brings\u00a0particular concerns<\/a>. Global emissions have seen a\u00a0record-breaking drop<\/a>\u00a0during the pandemic, but not enough to slow the overall trend in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which reached its\u00a0highest ever level in May<\/a>, and not even enough to bring us close to meeting the 1.5C global warming target. How we respond to and attempt to recover from the deepest recession on record in a way that is\u00a0not simply about restoring GDP growth<\/a>\u00a0is a question that should involve us all.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0critics<\/a>, the pandemic has made an easy but misleading target of the\u00a0post-growth or degrowth movement<\/a>. They falsely equate the social and economic devastation wrought by coronavirus with the planned, long-term downscaling of society\u2019s throughput (the materials and energy a society metabolises) that degrowth advocates argue for. Sceptics of \u2018growth as prosperity\u2019 do not want a recession, or, as is looking increasingly likely, a depression. Indeed at their most compelling, arguments for\u00a0moving beyond growth<\/a>\u00a0as an overarching economic, social and political goal draw on the promise that a sustainable society can and should be a better, more equal and more\u00a0prosperous society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t have to live like this\u2014review of Kate Soper\u2019s Post-Growth Living In her new book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, Kate Soper calls for a vision of the good life not reliant on endless economic growth and points us to the ways in which our current patterns of living are not only environmentally […]<\/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":[30297,162,23149,203,30296,30295,641,769],"class_list":["post-55009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-centre-for-the-understanding-of-sustainable-prosperity","tag-consumption","tag-cusp","tag-degrowth","tag-kate-soper","tag-nick-taylor","tag-post-growth","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55009","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=55009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55010,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55009\/revisions\/55010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}