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Degrowth with Andrew, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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Degrowth Is Not a Cancer

When you consider how GDP is measured, it's about financial transactions and not necessarily the non-financial ones. A lot of positive and constructive and beneficial actions that people do on a regular basis do not contribute to GDP. Whereas entire destructive industries contribute significantly to GDP. If we were to de-grow our society, we're not going to be seeing domestic activity increases of two or three percent.

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