However, many in the degrowth movement seem to have trouble taking yes for an answer.
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And so this smart little pamphlet is, in a way, a manifesto for personal degrowth, or shrinkage.
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He also fails to make the distinction between contraction as unplanned, disastrous recession and contraction as planned degrowth.
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For half a century, we've been told that we had to embrace degrowth in order to save our planet.
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The one thing everyone agrees on is that the last 50 years have been a period of growth, not degrowth.
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But that's where a theory called 'degrowth' could come in: it argues that sharply reducing working hours and consumption will save the world.
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Once confined to the small scientific community of climate researchers and ecological economists, the idea of degrowth is now blazing into the mainstream.
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Degrowth is a radical economic argument, because Gross National Product (GDP) has held sway since the 1930s as our means of measuring economic success.