Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Product Information

One of the most important books I have read. Less is Morecalmly dismantles the central myths of capitalism, exposing its destructive madness for all to see. It then does something extremely rare: it outlines a clear path to a sustainable future for all. A manifesto for movements and a manual for policymakers, everyone needs to understand its urgent message.” UVA Graduate Student Receives Newcombe Fellowship". UVA Today. 5 May 2010 . Retrieved 22 November 2020. And if you are telling to yourelf that won't happen in your lifetime, then it is good to know that: Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA) Annual Award for Teaching and Lecturing in Anthropology, 2013. [48]

Jason is able to personalise the global and swarm the mind with ideas ... Heed his beautifully rendered warning. Russell Brand

What are the limits of our economy?

GDP as a metric, in 1950s brought in a simplistic measure for Capital growth while removing other parameters of Human development and natural equilibrium. Capitalism treats these as “externalities”, and they are exactly how they are termed. External to GDP measurements. The issue of how to divide labour in a green economy and ensure good wages looms large for degrowth advocates. But, c ontrary to objections that degrowth amounts to austerity or a formula for economic blight, it can complement demands of the labour movement. At the individual state level, a proper degrowth policy would reassert the importance of labour’ s de-commodification through a strong, universal welfare state, and ensure full employment through a shorter work week, allowing more time for family and leisure. By greatly reducing carbon-intensive industries, public policy could strengthen local industry, sustainable agriculture, and care work, granting some expansion in other sectors while advancing wage compression across society. In an ideal world this would facilitate an economic transition that a majority of people could adapt to and embrace. It is not that this book is bringing only information that you totally didnt know. This is not the point. The point is that it describes in a clear, straight to the point manner the expected effects in the short, medium and long term of climate change, without being alarmistic, but rather more to raise awareness. Despite this, the introduction got me depressed more than the best novel of Dostoyevsky or so.

Less Is More explains how GDP, the measur Get this book an read it. I'm so confident that you will feel it was worth the read, that I will commit to buying the physical book from you if you decide it was not worth your time to read it.

This fuels a politics of fear and resentment at what could be lost, at the expense of what could be gained —both for society and the world. In turn, the conflation of values with hollow consumerism bodes awfully for any kind of meaningful solidarity with the Global South, and makes a future in which US politics is charged over the plight of domestic climate refugees more imminent with each passing year.