degrowth
Americannoun
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an economic policy centering lower levels of consumption and production with a view towards environmental and economic sustainability.
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a decrease in size, value, or quantity.
Example Sentences
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"This is open to misunderstanding that degrowth denies technology to try to go back to nature or something like that. This is absurd."
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
That's how the issue of degrowth and eco-socialist ideas came to be central for his ideas.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
The new kind of fair mobility is a central idea of degrowth.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
So how do degrowth and convivial technology play out in practice?
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2022
Sometimes misunderstood as depression, poverty and austerity, degrowth is really about creating socially convivial, economically secure and ecologically sustainable lives.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2022
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