The great transition initiative is an online forum of ideas and an international network for the critical exploration of concepts, strategies, and visions for a transition to a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and a resilient biosphere. The degrowth alternative great transition initiative. If you try to measure the reduction in the rate of growth by taking into account damages caused to the environment and its consequences on our natural and cultural patrimony, you will generally obtain a result of zero or even negative growth. Serge latouche has 73 books on goodreads with 1732 ratings. Most of us who live in the north and the west consume far too much too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. Serge latouche is a somewhat legendary figure in the postgrowth debate. We should be talking about a growth, in the sense in which we speak of atheism. If growth automatically generated wellbeing, we would now be living in a paradise.
A discussion of the margins of economic and ecological thought 85 keynesianism including its greened version that had been proposed to come to grips with the ecological predicament. Serge latouche, farewell to growth polity press, 2010, 180pp, isbn. Serge latouche is the main intellectual force behind the popularization of decroissance degrowth. Serge latouche is the main intellectual force behind the popular. Serge latouche argues that we need to rethink from the very foundations the idea that our societies should be based on growth. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only goal is growth for growths sake. Pdf farewell to growth polity, 2010 by serge latouche. Serge latouche, an economist and critic of the westernization of africa, who popularized. In french economist serge latouches 2009 book, farewell to growth, latouche discusses degrowth in great detail, but he also explains how racial bias and bias in general in the world today has no place in a postgdp world that embraces the principles outlined in degrowth or, as he calls it, decroissance. I first familiarised with it in 2010, when i attended my first degrowth conference in finland entitled alternatives to the growth economy.
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