Bottom-Up or Top-Down: How to Degrow the Economy
by Vlad Bunea
To stop global warming, the 6th mass extinction, and ecological unravelling in general, humanity must degrow its ecological footprint very fast. We must degrow by 2–3 percent per year until our footprint falls under the planet’s biocapacity to regenerate itself. The only way to do this is to completely overhaul our growth-oriented, capitalist economic system.
There is a passionate ongoing debate in degrowthUK’s Prospects for Degrowth series about how to achieve this.