A recent article by Leigh Phillips, ‘The degrowth delusion’, comes at a crucial time in our political history. We stand at the precipice of ecological collapse. In an increasingly polarised political environment, nationalist movements, socialism and climate activism are rapidly growing in power.
The climate movement and socialist movements must come together to build a new progressive movement, defeat the rising nationalist tide, and save ourselves from disaster.
Leigh’s article attacks some of the bad forms of the ‘degrowth ideology’, but misses much of the positive parts of the movement. Rather than presenting degrowth and socialism as rivals, I believe a better approach is to try to synthesise socialist and degrowth ideas, and bring these communities together.
