A reply to Anthony Signorelli’s post “What would it take to degrow the economy?”
<p>This is a response to Anthony Signorelli’s <a href="https://medium.com/predict/what-would-it-take-to-degrow-the-economy-2c74b5f3d10a" rel="noopener">excellent post</a> “<em>What would it take to degrow the economy?</em>” As I tried to get my thoughts together over where I agreed and disagreed with Anthony, I found my response growing, so I decided to post this as a separate article on my own feed and reference it in a comment to Anthony’s post.</p>
<p>Anthony’s essay provides a very good answer to a very important question: “<em>can we really expect humanity, especially those of us residing in the relatively rich Global North, to voluntarily adopt a policy of degrowth in order to avoid climate catastrophe?”</em> And the answer, as Anthony articulates well, is “<em>no, we cannot</em>.” Anthony sees this as a problem for advocates of degrowth. I see it as a problem for our civilization writ large.</p>
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