Meanings of degrowth in English

However, many in the degrowth movement seem to have trouble taking yes for an answer.

And so this smart little pamphlet is, in a way, a manifesto for personal degrowth, or shrinkage.

He also fails to make the distinction between contraction as unplanned, disastrous recession and contraction as planned degrowth.

For half a century, we've been told that we had to embrace degrowth in order to save our planet.

The one thing everyone agrees on is that the last 50 years have been a period of growth, not degrowth.

But that's where a theory called 'degrowth' could come in: it argues that sharply reducing working hours and consumption will save the world.

Once confined to the small scientific community of climate researchers and ecological economists, the idea of degrowth is now blazing into the mainstream.

Degrowth is a radical economic argument, because Gross National Product (GDP) has held sway since the 1930s as our means of measuring economic success.