The relentless growth of degrowth economics
Jessi Jezewska Stevens writes: The ninth International Degrowth Conference, held in August this year in Zagreb, Croatia, opens with a provocation. Keynote speaker Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, the newly elected vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has two requests to make of the audience. The first is to figure out how to coordinate with governments of all stripes, since the climate crisis requires global unity. The second? “Maybe consider a different word.” It’s about as close to blasphemy…