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Re: "Life in a Degrowthed Country"
@gyaradong thanks for the informative description, but I think what you decribed is more related to sustainability, efficiency, common sense, etc..
As for degrowth, the term is the antonym of growth which webster defines as:
(1) To decrease in size by a natural and organic process; to decrease in bulk by the gradual loss of matter out of a living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
(2) To become smaller and weaker, to wane, to be diminished, to decline, to fail.
It is interesting that such a semantic was chosen for this term you described. Wonder if the plain meaning should be rejected in favour of description you kindly provided?
2023-08-28 · 5 months ago
🐉 gyaradong · Aug 28 at 21:46:
the people who came up with the term chose a contentious name on purpose. Not everyone agrees with the choice, specifically because a lot of people equate it with decay.
— gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view?Degrowth
Life in a Degrowthed Country — I am new to Gemini Space, in fact this is my first attempt at writing in this corner of the cyber world. In Gemini space I read many articles about degrowth, and being resident in a depopulated city, I thought I would give my two cents on the topic. The philosophy is not new. In the past they just used to call it Malthusianism, and in my opinion it is a harmful idea, a relic from the colonial past. I am writing now from Damascus, the capital city of Syria, a...