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Want to understand what "degrowth" is? Here are 10 definitions from the literature.
1/ “a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use in rich nations to bring the economy back into balance with the living world, while reducing inequality and improving people’s access to the resources they need to live long, healthy, flourishing lives”
2/ “the degrowth project challenges the hegemony of economic growth and calls for a democratically led redistributive downscaling of production and consumption in industrialized countries as a means to achieve environmental sustainability, social justice, and well-being”
3/ “a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society’s throughput (of material and energy) while improving the quality of life”
4/ “a downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions and equity on the planet”
5/ “a way of life where economic expansion is deprioritized, resulting in stronger social bonds between people and within communities, greater economic equality and far less environmental degradation”
6/ “an equitable downscaling of production and consumption that increases human well-being and enhances ecological conditions at the local and global level, in the short and long-term [and which is] offered as a social choice”
7/ “a collective and deliberative process aimed at the equitable downscaling of the overall capacity to produce and consume and of the role of markets and commercial exchanges as a central organising principle of human lives”
8/ “a societal transformation to reduce and stabilize (...) the energy and matter throughput of the global economic system, and to reorient economic activity toward designing structures of provisioning and peer-governance that address people’s shared and individual needs (...) ”
9/ “a transformative path towards forms of economic activity and social (self-)organization centred on the welfare of all human beings and the preservation of the ecological basis of life”
10/ “the transition – via the gradual and equitable downscaling of production and consumption – to a quantitatively smaller and qualitatively different economy that respects the environment, increases human well-being and aims at social equity”
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