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" 'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut Economics A Financial Times Book of the Year ______________________________________ Our planet is in trouble. But how can we reverse the current crisis and create a sustainable future? The answer is: DEGROWTH . Less is More is the wake-up call we need. By shining a light on ecological breakdown and the system that's causing it, Hickel shows how we can bring our economy back into balance with the living world and build a thriving society for all. This is our chance to change course, but we must act now. "
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Biographisches: "Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is originally from Eswatini (Swaziland) and spent a number of years with migrant workers in South Africa, writing about exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. He has authored three books, including most recently The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions . He writes regularly for the Guardian , Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy , serves as an advisor for the Green New Deal for Europe and sits on the Lancet Commission for Reparations and Redistributive Justice. He lives in London." Rezension(2): "New Scientist: Jason is able to personalise the global and swarm the mind with ideas ... Heed his beautifully rendered warning. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 27, 2021 “For decades we’ve been told that we need growth in order to improve lives. But it turns out this isn’t actually true,” writes economic anthropologist Hickel ( The Divide ) in this impassioned treatise. Capitalism is fundamentally dependent on growth, and that growth is destroying the planet, Hickel posits. Degrowth, meanwhile, is “a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a safe, just and equitable way.” Hickel shows what this would look like in practice, imagining 30-hour workweeks, products made to last, longer life expectancies, and more time for leisure and care. He convincingly makes a case that Western societies believe capitalism to be “natural” and ingrained in human nature, and, on the flipside, he surveys countries that are granting nature legal personhood the way corporations have been: New Zealand, India, and Colombia, for example, have granted legal personhood to several sites, and anyone who “harms” the site can be prosecuted accordingly. Hickel effectively avoids doom-and-gloom, and his hope is inspiring: “We have everything to lose, and a world to gain.” Climate-minded readers will find this worth returning to."
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