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Down With Sustainable Development! Long Live Convivial Degrowth!

By Justin Hyatt
For anyone who recently attended the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth in Leipzig, Germany, listening in on conference talk, surrounded by the ecologically savvy, one quickly noticed that no one was singing the praises of sustainable development.

Only the Crazy and Economists Believe Growth is Endless

By Justin Hyatt
From the mid-20th century onwards, economic growth has come to count as a self-evident goal in economic policies and GDP to be seen as the most important index for measuring economic activities.