The whole idea of degrowth is based on a strawman argument of what economic growth is and what mainstream economic theories describe as its causes. Worse yet, it attacks things that are useful for defeating challenges like hunger, global warming and pollution and offers no actual help for those causes. It is throwing the baby with the bathwater.
The strawman equates growth with additional non-renewable resource extraction + increased consumerism. Mainstream theories explain growth with increases productivity - producing more with the same inputs.
Let's examine a thought experiment - the world reverts to living as in the 18th century. It will be mass starvation as we will not be able to produce enough food and the surving people will clear the forests for firewood and land, exhaust the soils with primitive agriculture. Both humans and the environment will be much worse off.
The strawman equates growth with additional non-renewable resource extraction + increased consumerism. Mainstream theories explain growth with increases productivity - producing more with the same inputs.
Let's examine a thought experiment - the world reverts to living as in the 18th century. It will be mass starvation as we will not be able to produce enough food and the surving people will clear the forests for firewood and land, exhaust the soils with primitive agriculture. Both humans and the environment will be much worse off.