Why Economic Growth Does More Harm Than Good

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In this video, we will look at 7 key arguments showing that it is, in fact, the pursuit of growth which undermines human and ecological security and wellbeing.

0:00 Intro
0:44 Ecological Critique
01:52 Socio-Economic Critique
03:35 Cultural Critique
05:02 Critique of Capitalism
05:54 Feminist Critique
07:08 Critique of Industrialism
08:03 South-North Critique
09:25 Conclusion

Some of the literature and articles referred to:
The Future is Degrowth (Verso Books):
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/prod...

Decoupling Debunked report:
https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-de...

Marilyn Waring’s Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth
https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/counting-...

‘High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes’ by Galbraith et al.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

The Diverse Economies Iceberg:
https://www.communityeconomies.org/re...

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