This is from the chapter by Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) in "The Climate Book" --
Degrowth calls for a planned reduction of excess resource and energy use in high-income nations to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a just and equitable way.
What does this look like in practice? Instead of assuming that every sector of the economy must grow all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need it, we should decide which sectors of the economy we actually need to improve (for example renewable energy, public transportation, and healthcare) and which sectors are clearly destructive and should be scaled down (SUVs, air travel, fast fashion, industrial beef, advertising, finance, the practice of planned obsolescence, the military industrial complex, and so on).
There are huge chunks of the economy that are organized mostly around corporate power and elite consumption, and we would all be better off without them.
