The Degrowth Movement

Wim Naudé

Chapter Chapter 5 in Economic Growth and Societal Collapse, 2023, pp 95-105 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter dissects the Malthusian response to Green Growth—the Degrowth Agenda. Degrowthers reject green growth, arguing that the only way to avoid resource depletion and an existential climate crisis is to make a concerted effort to scale down GDP—to “degrow” the economy. It is argued in this chapter that Degrowth will not stop ecological overshoot. It would likely worsen the environmental predicament, and on top of this, it is a costly method to reduce carbon emissions and may boil down in its implementation—in top-down command fashion—to a form of austerity for the working class. For these reasons, among others, Degrowth as policy agenda is politically infeasible, and ecological iatrogenics.

Keywords: Degrowth; Post-growth; Doughnut economics; Ecological iatrogenics; Eco-Marxism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45582-7_5

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