Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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Second part is a brilliantly put together argument completed with quite a few well thought possible solutions to our main issues. A manifesto for movements and a manual for policymakers, everyone needs to understand its urgent message. HAMLET'S ODE TO THE 21st CENTURYTo grow, or not to grow: that is the question,Whether 'tis nobler on Earth to sufferThe filth and waste of outrageous productionOr to take arms against a toxic sea of troubles,and by opposing, end them? Hickel outlines quite succinctly how capitalism developed through extremely violent and bloody activities.

So now we get to learn whether he’s an anarchist, communist, anarcho-communist, is he a statist or does he want to decentralise…? It is definitely an eye-opener which has caused me to reconsider how I live in my life and what I should work towards in the future.Jason Hickel w tym kompleksowym, zgrabnym i niezadętym eseju rozprawia się z mitami na temat kapitalizmu, kreśląc jego rzeczywistą, brutalną historię, obala paradygmat wzrostu, krytykuje zachodni dualizm człowiek-przyroda, a przy tym proponuje wiele rozwiązań, które mogłyby uratować planetę i jej mieszkańców, przedstawia wizję świata postkapitalistycznego i postwzrostowego - a jest to świat, o którym warto marzyć, o który warto walczyć, mimo że jest utopią. I’ve heard this story elsewhere (fellow anthropologist David Graeber, those influenced by Fernand Braudel like Immanuel Wallerstein), and of course this is a messy topic with many inner debates, but this was a refreshing summary: capitalism did not “evolve” from feudalism in a linear, progressive manner. Actually, it will sooner or later kill us if we don't question what seems to be the status quo, but actually has been around for only about 500 years. To breathe, to pause;To pause; perchance to dream: aye, there's the hope;For in that breath of hope what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this monstrous myth,Must give us pause.

a. He presents a range of solutions that are interesting to think about, but ultimately should serve as a primer to kickstart our own social imaginations. I am aware that this book has its problems (cherry-picked data, details conveniently missing for the sake of a stronger argument, a cover that forces me to tell everyone "this isn't a book about minimalism") but it did what it set out to do.A system that has taught us to assign value to a thing not based on utility, but based on how hard it is to get, on scarcity, on how it makes people look at us, on how much we can get for it when we sell it. De eerste helft is een uiteenzetting van wat tegelijkertijd als een totale open deur als als een revolutionair verhaal. Hickel mentions, but never addresses in depth, the question of where the ultimate limits to growth are — either for agriculture, for industry, or for human population. Some radical solutions seem impractical and not enough evidence nor a convincing argument is made to alleviate the doubts one might have about those solutions (New money). Too often authors come up with 'possible' solutions which rely on as yet untested or non-existent answers.