Slow Down or Perish: The Economy of Degrowth

The author compares the crisis we are crossing to the performance of a marathon runner. The end of the Anthropocene is our death, or almost: if the marathon runner persists in running, he will die. So why doesn’t he stop? In this essay, Timothée Parrique deconstructs the great myths at the founding of the mortiferous ideology of growth and details the possibility of a transition founded on environmental justice and harmony with nature, the slowing-down of economic life and the reduction of production and inequalities

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