{"id":64544,"date":"2022-12-29T07:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64544"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:24:21","slug":"the-degrowth-propaganda-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64544","title":{"rendered":"The degrowth propaganda squad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Degrowth. Image:\u00a0Klimacamp Wien<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u2018There is no alternative.\u2019 The infamous slogan used by Margaret Thatcher would often be flung in your face, explicitly or implicitly, whenever you tried, in recent decades, to resist the dominant economic system.<\/p>\n

You were opposed to \u2018capitalism\u2019 because of its colonial roots, because it was a productivity machine that generated extreme social inequality and that was disrupting the climate and the environment at an ever-growing pace.<\/p>\n

Readers interested in how knowledge of economics and public relations can assist in environmental activism can contact the newly formed Degrowth Propaganda Squad by emailing\u00a0rydrawong@protonmail.com.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

You were a part of that \u2018system\u2019, however, and, for some of us, we were also white middle-class Westerners, and we reaped some of its benefits. You only really stammered when you tried to describe that \u2018alternative\u2019.<\/p>\n

Degrowth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Hickel\u2019s bestselling\u00a0Less is More\u00a0<\/em>(2021) at least frees us from this sense of discomfort. In it, Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, not only shows irrefutably that capitalism \u2013 driven by the creation of profit and the reinvestment of that profit and thus by the idea of seemingly infinite growth \u2013 is an impossible path for the future.<\/p>\n

In purely material terms, the planet on which and off which we live has put up several hard ecological boundaries. Crossing those boundaries, it has become increasingly clear, has extremely destructive consequences.<\/p>\n

Drawing on indisputable data, Hickel shows that, as a new way forward, \u2018green growth\u2019 \u2013 growth decoupled from an excessive energy and material footprint \u2013 is just as likely to lead to a dead end and that technological innovation is not going to magically solve the problems.<\/p>\n

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The degrowth propaganda squad Degrowth. Image:\u00a0Klimacamp Wien What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays. \u2018There is no alternative.\u2019 The infamous slogan used by Margaret Thatcher would often be flung in your face, explicitly or implicitly, whenever you tried, in recent decades, to resist […]<\/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":[2,7],"tags":[203,248,33501,3034,655,1161,33500],"class_list":["post-64544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-degrowth","tag-edward-bernays","tag-friedrich-hayek","tag-information","tag-propaganda","tag-public-relations","tag-sebastien-hendrickx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64544","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=64544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64545,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64544\/revisions\/64545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}