The New Republic had an excellent new profile piece on Tim Jackson, entitled “The Surprising Message That Made a British Economist a Celebrity.” Read it here and find an excerpt below.
A standard critique of degrowth is that we can’t afford not to grow: Funding green energy, expanding childcare and health care, raising the living standards of billions living in absolute poverty—all of this costs money. But trying to fix issues like health care or poverty within a system committed to endless growth risks further private-sector profiteering, and in recent decades has exacerbated inequality rather than narrowing it. From this vantage, the debate between growth and degrowth is also misleading. A better question is: In what sectors and locations do we need more or less growth to satisfy human needs while remaining within the planetary boundaries?
