Less is More

How Degrowth Will Save the World

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published July 29, 2020 by William Heinemann.

ISBN:
978-1-78515-249-8
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5 stars (3 reviews)

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause: capitalism. Our economic system is based on perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth.

If we want to have a shot at surviving the Anthropocene, we need to restore the balance. We need to change how we see the world and our place within it, shifting from a philosophy of domination and extraction to one that’s rooted in reciprocity with our planet’s ecology. We need to evolve beyond the dusty dogmas of capitalism to a new system that’s fit for the twenty-first century.

But what about jobs? What about health? What about progress? This book tackles these questions and offers an inspiring vision for what a post-capitalist economy could look like. An …

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Everything is fucked. Can we stop doing this shit?

4 stars

Incredibly eye-opening. I especially appreciated the "Capitalism: A Creation Story" section and the vision for a post-capitalist economy.

This book also informed me of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement, a source of hope I plan to cling to as it was massively depressing, albeit freeing, to learn just how much everything is fucked (for now?).

One star docked for redundancy that made it difficult to get through towards the end.