Episode 81: Is Degrowth the Future?

Green Wave

That infinite economic growth is simply not possible on a finite planet seems a truth that is increasingly hard to escape - in some circles. Yet governments continue to organise their countries around the idea that economic growth is good, necessary, and important. Is degrowth the vision that can lay out another way forward - and one that is more just and green? Jorge Pinto on The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism (Verso, 2022) and its compelling case for why all environmentalists and left-wingers should get behind degrowth.

Written by Jorge Pinto.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

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