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Degrowth
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Our economic system is structurally dependent on growth, it serves the interests of the most powerful factions of our society, and it is rooted in a deep-seated world view of dominion and dualism that goes back some 500 years. This edifice will not yield easily. Not even to science.
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― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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The vast majority of major, collaborative infrastructure projects around the world have been guided by government policy and funded by public resources: sanitation systems, road systems, railway networks, public health systems, national power grids, the postal service. These are not the spontaneous outcomes of market forces, much less of abstract growth. Projects like these require public investment. Once we realise this, it becomes clear that we can fund the transition quite easily by directing
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― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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