{"id":55649,"date":"2020-11-16T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55649"},"modified":"2020-11-16T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T23:39:00","slug":"the-necessary-alternative-to-growth-is-degrowth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55649","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cThe Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0\u201cThe Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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A Review of\u00a0Degrowth\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>by Giorgos Kallis (2018)<\/p>\n

In Europe, \u201cdegrowth\u201d is actually a movement, while in the US it is\u00a0barely mentionable<\/a>\u00a0in polite society. To question \u201cgrowth\u201d would be the death knell for any serious politician. So what\u2019s going on here? We live in the same world and face the same reality of \u201climits-to-growth\u201d \u2013 a very popular concept in the US 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

Well, since Earth Day, 1970, there has been a lot of \u201cwater under the bridge\u201d, to be sure, but more to the point \u201coil in the pipeline\u201d, especially in petro-states like the US. We may not be as dependent on oil as the other two big petro-states \u2013 the Saudis and the Russians \u2013 but it still skews our politics and our culture far more than most people realize. But Europe is not so well endowed with fossil fuels. That\u2019s exactly the point of reading the European scholar Giorgos Kallis on degrowth. He\u2019s not sidelined for painting a more sober view of the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century:<\/p>\n

\u201cEither we find a way to stop those who are plundering the earth and share the limited planet that we have, or we will enter a New Dark Age of humanity\u2026 There will never be enough until we share what there is\u2026 Degrowth marks a ruthless critique of the dogma of economic growth\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note the utopian element, which Kallis readily acknowledges: It\u2019s not just about long-term economic contraction \u2013 that we must learn to live within our planetary means. That will happen one way or another anyway. He calls us to do all we can to avoid both catastrophe and plutocracy \u2013 the brutal dog-eat-dog and win-lose scenarios. Think of his solution as \u201cresilience\u201d plus \u201csharing\u201d. And forget about the fiction of \u201cgreen growth\u201d.<\/p>\n

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