Degrowth: The Path From Consumerism To Survival

CLIMATE HOUR – Sustainability is about finding life’s balance. Producing enough to satisfy your customers’ needs while earning enough to satisfy the needs of you and your co-workers. In contrast, perpetual economic growth is about a cycle of producing surplus, more than is needed, then using mass marketing to convince people to overconsume.

Perpetual economic growth is based on consumerism. Convincing people to buy more than they need. More than is healthy. Fast fashion, fast food, commercial animal farming are all symptoms of the overconsumption required to maintain perpetual economic growth. Overconsumption that leads to poor health and a collapsing environment; to overshooting our planet’s resources and to climate change.

The climate crisis is a product of consumerism. And while there are many ways we can profitably lower our personal carbon footprint to reduce global warming and slow the climate crisis, we will never stop climate change until we address our overconsumption; our unsustainable expectations of perpetual economic growth. We need to find life’s balance. To stop overshooting the planet’s resources. We need to degrow our economic expectations and halt consumerism.

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss the Degrowth: The Path From Consumerism To Survival. Guests include:

• Christopher Marquis, Author and Sinyi Professor of Management, University of Cambridge


• Jason Barahona Rosales, Program Coordinator, Degrowth Institute


• William Rees, Author and Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia


• Zoharia Drizin, Gen Z Advisory Board, Climate Mental Health Network

To learn more, visit …

• https://chrismarquis.com/


• https://www.degrowthinst.org


• https://apsc.ubc.ca/profile/william-rees


• https://climatementalhealth.net


• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6JPDD24

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