This article will be released in full online July 31, 2023. Kent Klitgaard surveys degrowth thought, starting with the essential contradiction of capitalism…
The relevance of thermodynamics to economics is we have our priorities backwards. It is in our enlightened self interest to put the thermodynamics horse ahead of the economic horse.
Although I recognize that degrowth is not a certain theory but more of a pluralistic critical frame calling for socio-ecological transformations, here is what I managed to put together regarding the economic activities related to clothing inspired by degrowth.
The rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.