“In contrast to most Green New Deals, degrowth formulates active policies to achieve a selective downscaling and de-accumulation of those economic activities that cannot be made sustainable, contribute little use values, or are superfluous consumption – and these include things like advertising, planned obsolescence, ‘bullshit jobs’, private planes, or fossil fuel and defence industries.”
Excerpt From
The Future is Degrowth
Matthias Schmelzer
@42GB Strikingly, some of these activities even add net *negative* value to society, arguably!
Which makes degrowth all the more appealing to me.