{"article":{"id":267696,"heading":"Degrowth - a vocabulary for a new era, 19pp","author":"Giorgos Kallis, Federico Demaria & G D'Al","created":"2015-03-21 19:31:41","modified":"2015-03-21 19:31:41","last_modified":"Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:31:41","article":"http:\/\/vocabulary.degrowth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Degrowth-vocabulary_Introduction-Degrowth_Kallis-Demaria-Dalisa.pdf<\/a>

As the late Eric Hobsbawm (2011: 12) put it very late in his long life, ‘there is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum growth in search for profit’. Two premises underlie this statement. The first was defended in Section 3.1: economic growth unavoidably increases throughput and negatively impacts the biosphere (against the argument of proponents of green growth or green

capitalism that it is possible to both grow and reduce environmental impact). The second is that growth is an imperative under capitalism

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