Gerry McGovern on Nostr: The rise of the Growth Death Cult “Social, moral, and ecological ills were ...
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/
“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/