I've been devouring @jasonhickel's new book Less Is More. It's a master piece pulling together the ecological disaster wake-up call from The Uninhabitable Earth, the economic enlightenment from Piketty's Capital, and the colonial history from Jason's own The Divide. Just ace.
As a long-term skeptic of growth for its own sake, Less Is More provides the empirical and historical proof to underpin my hunch. A world economy that seeks perpetual growth is a disaster for both the earth and its inhabitants. This book pairs the argument with urgency.
As I was reading Less is More, I kept marveling at what an incredibly effective propaganda program this Growth Über Alles scheme has been. @jasonhickel's book is the most effective counter and deprogramming plan I've yet encountered. Written in plain, accessible English.
It's clear that my own observations from the field of tech were myopic, but I still smile at how this piece from four years ago compliments Jason's fundamental thesis that growthism is a disease. m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-gr…
And that the ultimate answer lies in an acceptance of ENOUGH. We don't need to grow more and more and forever. We have more than we need, but we've distributed it poorly. Grow to maturity, then no more. Don't be a cancer. m.signalvnoise.com/enough/
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