The rise of the Growth Death Cult
“Social, moral, and ecological ills were sustained in the interest of economic growth; indeed, adherents to the faith proposed that only more growth could resolve such ills. Economic growth became the indispensable ideology of the state nearly everywhere. … The overarching priority of economic growth was easily the most important idea of the twentieth century.”
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-08-13/from-growth-fetish-to-post-growth/
Gerry McGovern /
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