Exploring Contrasting Approaches to Technology in Green Growth vs. Degrowth Scenarios

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This chapter delves into the contrasting approaches of green growth and degrowth scenarios regarding technology's role in tackling environmental issues. It explains how green growth scenarios focus on boosting production and energy needs through technological advancements, while degrowth scenarios prioritize realistic technological advancements and reducing unnecessary production to achieve faster decarbonization sustainably.

Paris Marx is joined by Jason Hickel to discuss how technology would change in a degrowth society and why it doesn’t make sense to organize society around profit and infinite expansion.

Jason Hickel is the author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. He’s also a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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