It’s getting to look a lot like degrowth: Part 3

Involuntary degrowth: the storm before the calm

Steve Genco
15 min readApr 14, 2023

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Image generated by DALL-E2, “ants on a log in the water, a waterfall up ahead”. What’s with this picture of ants on a log? See the first post in this 3-post series.

This is the final post of a three part series on the existential problem of degrowth in a world that still believes in perpetual economic growth. Part 1 looks at why the capitalist model of perpetual growth is unable to accept the concept of degrowth. Part 2 discusses why degrowth is inevitable, but

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Steve Genco

Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.