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Degrowth – The Myth of Ever Expanding Growth Has Met Its Limits. Is Degrowth the Answer?

The Sustainability Story

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The Third Engine of Economic Growth

An economy is here to economize resources. We organize economically so that we can do things we cannot do alone. So in that economy, actually all cainds of productivity. If we're more efficient in producing something, that's great. Then it means we can work less. It means certain forests won't have to be cut down. It means we can have more national park, we can protect more species. But at the difference of capitalism to day, every liberated resource lid, be an hour of work or a piece of energy or material, is not re invested into production and actually just is not used. And even right now, if we won't be able to organize degrow

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