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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Sun, 04 May 2025 10:34:00 +0000

Thanks, stay tuned for more as I am not done with this topic yet either.

Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Kuzuri/Blogorgonopsid

Kuzuri/Blogorgonopsid — Sun, 04 May 2025 10:17:00 +0000

I would love to read this book. As an anarchist and degrowth sympathizer, and as someone who has read one of Giorgos Kallis’ books, I would definitely benefit from it. I believe in degrowth.

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by abdessamed gtumsila

abdessamed gtumsila — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:52:22 +0000

Thanks for the review.
A radical, thought-provoking vision.

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Comment on Book review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - 3 Quarks Daily

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - 3 Quarks Daily — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:50:51 +0000

[…] basic human needs. The problem is growth for growth’s sake. In nature, growth is ubiquitous but normally follows a sigmoidal curve of some kind, eventually coming to a halt. Capitalism is different, which brings us to point two. People often […]

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:13:32 +0000

In reply to bormgans.

Thanks, that book is high on my list. I listened to an interview with him, and it resonated.

For what it’s worth, Hickel similarly advocates consuming less.

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by bormgans

bormgans — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:56:22 +0000

More and More and More but JB Fressoz is worth looking into btw. He advocaten consuming less a.o.

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by bormgans

bormgans — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:52:40 +0000

Capitalism isn´t a cause. Sure, it’s a complicating/accelarating factor, perhaps a symptom. The real cause is overshoot.

And indeed, all the talk about degrowth is hopium. We are in this to the bitter end, collapse is unavaidable.

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:11:53 +0000

In reply to notabilia.

Thanks, I hear what you’re saying regarding hopium. I might well bring up the question of Hickel’s optimism in Tuesday’s book club.

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Comment on Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by notabilia

notabilia — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:59:27 +0000

That’s an amazing books list- brilliantly done.
Your review is timely and perceptive, but where Hickel sees possibility, I see tragedy. There is no “How” to degrowth – it’s a version of Keep Hopium Alive.

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Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:11:47 +0000

[…] growth will mean a wholesale revision of our socio-economic system, likely involving a period of degrowth towards a steady-state economy. Tall order? Absolutely. Do I expect Yeo to here write the […]

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