Why are we growth-addicted? The hard way towards degrowth in the involutionary western development path |
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| Authors: | Pascal van Griethuysen |
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| Institution: | 1. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany;2. Universität Siegen, Department of Social Sciences, Fakultät 1 Politikwissenschaft, Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 2, 57068 Siegen, Germany;3. Technische Universität Berlin, Division of Economic Education and Sustainable Consumption, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Germany;4. University of New South Wales, Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Sydney 2052, Australia;5. Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Environmental Economics and Economic Policy, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany;6. inter 3 Institute for Resource Management, Otto-Suhr-Allee 59, 10585 Berlin, Germany;1. CENSE – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal;2. Research & Degrowth – Spain/France, c. Princesa 56, 08002 Barcelona, Spain;3. ICTA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, ETSE, QC/3103, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain;4. ICREA, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, ETSE, QC/3103, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain;1. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;2. Research & Degrowth, C/Princesa 6, 08003 Barcelona, Spain;1. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia;2. National Technical University of Athens, Greece;3. Yale University, United States;4. P2P Foundation, Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | By questioning the origins of the inertia facing the degrowth movement, this contribution identifies property as the constitutive institution of capitalism, and property expansion as the dominant socioeconomic process leading world societies to economic path dependence, techno-institutional lock-in and eco-social impasse. Demonstrating why and how property-based economic rationality subordinates ecological and social considerations to capitalist requirements, this paper stresses both the need for an inversion in the hierarchy of social norms and the systemic opposition to such an inversion, which emanates from the capitalist/industrial expansion. The text also brings to light some disregarded processes underlying the current economic crisis, by pointing out the institutional and technological locked-in situation into which the western development path has led our societies. |
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