The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

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Wayne Ellwood. The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

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‘Publishers have created lists of short books that discuss the questions that your average [electoral] candidate will only ever touch if armed with a slogan and a soundbite. Together [such books] hint at a resurgence of the grand educational tradition… Closest to the hot headline issues are The No-Nonsense Guides. These target those topics that a large army of voters care about, but that politicos evade. Arguments, figures and documents combine to prove that good journalism is far too important to be left to (most) journalists.’

Boyd Tonkin,

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The UK-based New Economics Foundation (NEF) uses the analogy of a hamster whose weight doubles weekly to illustrate the concept of compound growth.

‘From birth to puberty a hamster doubles its weight each week. If, then, instead of leveling-off in maturity as animals do, the hamster continued to double its weight each week, on its first birthday we would be facing a 9-billion-tonne hamster. If it kept eating at the same ratio of food to body weight, by then its daily intake would be greater than the total annual amount of maize produced worldwide. There is a reason that in nature things do not grow indefinitely.’8

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