Our economy currently relies on exploitation and unequal exchange between countries. Degrowth provides an alternative vision of an economy focused on prosperity and well-being for all. Degrowth researchers argue that scarcity is manufactured through ever-increasing consumption by the rich, and advocate instead for frugal abundance: providing a good life for everyone without relying on the exploitation of others or destruction of the environment.

It is hard, moving from the countryside to the metropolis. It isn’t just a new town or province, but a new place. You trade the trees for lampposts and suddenly everything is unfamiliar.

Within Washington D.C. and prominent policy circles, climate change is often seen as the ultimate collective action problem.