Review: The Future Is Degrowth by Schmelzer, Vetter and Vansintjan
The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism is an expanded version of Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung (2018) by Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter. In an interview to a Montreal-based book review journal, Aaron Vansintjan, who has been credited as co-author in the English edition, stated that “while growth is a powerful stabilizing mechanism of capitalist modernity, it destabilizes the ecological foundations of human life also on this planet.” Degrowth is a variant of post capitalism “organising…