What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel's 'A few points of clarification'

摘要

In a recent edition of Globalizations Jason Hickle made three main points towards clarifying the discussion of Degrowth. His contribution reinforced some important elements in the Degrowth claim, especially the fact that it is in no way to be identified with recession, and that there is a vast amount of evidence against the belief that growth of GDP can be decoupled from growth in resource consumption. However, I want to argue against his perspective on distinguishing between Degrowth and reducing the GDP, his conception of Degrowth, and whether the Third World should be exempt from it.