{"id":3504000,"date":"2024-10-18T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/?post_type=product&p=3504000"},"modified":"2024-10-31T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:27:41","slug":"deep-dive-moving-beyond-growth","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/product\/deep-dive-moving-beyond-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Dive: Moving Beyond Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than five decades have passed since a brilliant group of researchers published an unlikely blockbuster\u2014<\/span>The Limits to Growth<\/span><\/i> (1972). Since then, ecological footprint analysis has suggested that right around the same time <\/span>The Limits to Growth<\/span><\/i> became the best-selling environmental book of all time, the human economy went into overshoot, a state in which we are consuming resources faster than the Earth can regenerate them and emitting pollutants faster than the Earth can assimilate them. Plenty of subsequent scientific analyses have continued to raise alarms about humanity\u2019s overshoot predicament. And observable real-world outcomes, such as global heating and widespread loss of biodiversity, confirm that economic exploitation of ecosystems is damaging planetary systems that all life depends upon.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to this unsettling, systemic polycrisis, a growing number of academics, organizations, activists, and practitioners have taken up the subjects of degrowth, postcapitalist and postconsumerist economics, and local economic resilience. Fifty years gave us a long runway to rethink and rework the economy, but despite the best efforts of many heroic sustainability leaders, we haven\u2019t made much progress. Now, with environmental conditions deteriorating and overgrown economies flirting with collapse and failing to provide shared prosperity, it\u2019s time to embrace degrowth and get busy making the transition to an economy that meets people\u2019s needs without undermining the life-support systems of the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Deep Dive will:<\/span><\/p>\n