{"id":5865,"date":"2015-02-20T06:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:44:31","slug":"the-degrowth-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5865","title":{"rendered":"The Degrowth Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/greattransition.org\/publication\/the-degrowth-alternative\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The Degrowth Alternative<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation \u201cgreen growth\u201d depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. Ecologizing society, degrowthers argue, is not about implementing an alternative, better, or greener development. It is about imagining and enacting alternative visions to modern growth-based development. This essay explores such alternatives and identifies grassroots practices and political changes for facilitating a transition to a prosperous and equitable world without growth.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/greattransition.org\/publication\/the-degrowth-alternative#top\" name=\"ecology-vs-moderinity\">Ecology vs. Modernity<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The conflict between environment and growth is ever-present. For \u201cdevelopers,\u201d the value of growth is not to be questioned: more mining, drilling, building, and manufacturing is necessary to expand the economy. Against developers stand radical environmentalists and local communities, who are often alone in questioning the inevitability of \u201ca one-way future consisting only of growth.\u201d<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/greattransition.org\/publication\/the-degrowth-alternative#endnote_1\" name=\"1\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In this opposition to development projects, philosopher Bruno Latour sees a fundamental rejection of modernity\u2019s separation of means and ends.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/greattransition.org\/publication\/the-degrowth-alternative#endnote_2\" name=\"2\">2<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Radical environmentalists recognize that ecology, with its focus on connecting humans with one another and with the non-human world, is inherently at odds with growth that separates and conquers.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/greattransition.org\/publication\/the-degrowth-alternative#sthash.i04JSywC.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Degrowth Alternative Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation \u201cgreen growth\u201d depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. 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