Global rates of resource consumption and ecological impact are now far beyond levels that are sustainable, or that all people in the world could rise to, or that technical advance could make sustainable.

This is steadfastly ignored by all governments and the economics profession and the consuming masses. Few realise how great the degrowth would have to be.

The World Wildlife Fund estimates that to keep up present consumption of biological resources we’d need to harvest from this earth plus almost another one. Rich world per capita consumption rates are far above those that could be sustainable or that could be spread to all the world’s people. What needs to be stressed here is the magnitude of the........

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