Timothy Stanley: I share your fear for that. We will miss them when they are gone. And if you've followed my work at all, you know that the thing that i find most sacred in our world is the natural world and the species we share the planet with. But it's starting to change very, very slowly. So in contrast, tim ah, what are you most hopeful about in the coming decade or so? Ok, a, this this aloft. Perhaps you've heard about the different calls for desertion among french graduates? No, i have not. That has been this spring. Oh, that's fun.
On this episode, we meet with social scientist and researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University, Timothée Parrique.
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
About Timothée Parrique:
Timothée Parrique is a social scientist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).
He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a book adaptation in French of his PhD dissertation.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/32-timothee-parrique