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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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Consumption in a Growth Economy

De growth is the diet to bring our economy back to a steady state. So in that can a steady state economy where you don't want to cross natural boundaries. You cannot afford to have advertisement an plan of soletents that just, oknow incite new purchases every year. These institutions have to be reconstructed. If we start fom this hypothesis that our needs are finite, and if we just, let's take this very revolutionary, utopian assumption that we organize consumption so that it is needs satisfying, then we reach that philosophy of voluntary simplicity, sufficiency. That will be an important feature of eposed growth economy.

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