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The growthocene: Thinking through what degrowth is criticising

Authors:
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Alexander Paulsson

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Year of publication:
2016

Publishers:
entitleblog.org

Language:
English

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From the text: In what follows, we articulate three ways of understanding growth that should be challenged by degrowth: first, reliance on biophysical throughput; second, capital accumulation and productivism more generally; and third, perpetual strive for quantitative expansion of national economies (measured in GDP). We also propose that growthocene can be a suitable way to characterise the epoch we live in, broadening the notion of capitalocene while opposing the now mainstream notion of anthropocene.

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