DeGrowth and Steady State – another ideology?
De-growth and steady state concepts occur to me as a flattening of the reality of planetary life.
At an ecological and evolutionary and energy viewpoint there is no ‘steady-state’. Things are either flourishing or dying, and when the ecology is at it’s best, there is great redundancy in its flourishing that is invigorated in that which dies. And over time ecological systems alter by all sorts of ‘external’ inputs.
The planet and 8 billion people must flourish to reach ‘steady state’. This does not occur to me as de-growth. It does occur to me as an incredible transformation of human society, and so far, such transformation is linked to massive suffering.
Perhaps we can mitigate the suffering by building living models but so far these are too small to even suggest that they are scalable for even town sized populations let along the planet.
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