Degrowth, meanwhile, is “a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a safe, just and equitable way.” Hickel shows what this would look like in practice, imagining 30-hour workweeks, products made to last, longer life expectancies, and more time for leisure and care. Capitalism is fundamentally dependent on growth, and that growth is destroying the planet, Hickel posits. But it turns out this isn’t actually true,” writes economic anthropologist Hickel ( The Divide) in this impassioned treatise. “For decades we’ve been told that we need growth in order to improve lives.
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