This little blip in time from around 1850 until now, when humans had access to seemingly unlimited energy that fueled massive industrial expansion along with a population explosion, clearly cannot be sustained.

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This little blip in time from around 1850 until now, when humans had access to seemingly unlimited energy that fueled massive industrial expansion along with a population explosion, clearly cannot be sustained. Something has to give.

After a short but meteoric rise, with most of it occurring across only a few generations, our modern complex industrial society soon will come to an end. That appears all but inevitable.

Degrowth cannot prevent the end of industrial civilization. In fact, it’s not even intended to do that. Instead, degrowth aims to *replace* what was with something better, more just, more equitable, and more sustainable.

If begun quickly and achieved successfully, degrowth may provide a soft landing for our children and our grandchildren, sparing them the horrors of a hard collapse. Not to say the path will always be easy or comfortable, but looking squarely at our options, there can be only one sensible choice:

Degrowth now.

️ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

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