Talk:Degrowth/Archive 1

Spanish version
For those understanding it, the spanish version is really detailled. Decrecimiento --Ecureuil espagnol (talk) 11:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Article Creation
Here is the so-called De-growth article which replaces the un-equivalent article "uneconomic growth". Thanks to help me to enrich it. --Ecureuil espagnol (talk) 15:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I've been adding a lot to this article recently. Please excuse my cluttering of the history page, I'm still a wiki cadet. Any feedback would be appreciated. As I'm a strong proponent of degrowth, I'm struggling to maintain a neutral voice. Your revisions would be welcome. Skylerd (talk) 07:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Your efforts are greatly appreciated. When trying to maintain Neutral POV, just remember that we're only here to state facts; make sure to attribute any opinions to a source by providing a reference. The spanish-language version of the article is particularly bad about NPOV and makes many unsourced statements. The latter may be a problem in this article; de-growth is not a popular concept, so you don't hear a lot of talk about it. Keep up the good work! AniRaptor2001 (talk) 14:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

New academic references
Recently took place, in April 2010, the 2nd international degrowth conference, with many resoures published online like posters, presentations, stirring papers and soon the proceedings and complete articles. I think that it could be a good place for finding quotes and reliable sources: http://www.degrowth.eu/v1/index.php?id=114

--Esenabre (talk) 07:16, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Prosperity without Growth
Here is a report by Tim Jackson (Sustainable Development Commision) called Prosperity without Growth that seems to be rapidly a reference. I think it could have a place in this article. --Ecureuil espagnol (talk) 20:43, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Image
I'd like to see an image on this article that focuses on a positive aspect to degrowth, rather than one simply portraying it as a protest movement. After a quick search of commons, I don't see anything, but I'll keep my eyes open, and I'd love to hear some suggestions. --Keithonearth (talk) 02:45, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Origins of the movement
The history of "degrowth" movements extends a long way back, at least to the "Romantic Protest" movement in England (See Veldman, 1994). As a result, "degrowth" has quite complex origins and colourful influences, which cannot simply be reduced down to "the values of humanism, enlightenment and human rights". For example, there is a strong religious, Romantic, and traditionalist strain underlying the values of many of its key originators and proponents (all of those mentioned in the 'roots' paragraph in fact, and many of those mentioned of the 1960/70s era). Perhaps the conservative/traditionalist origins and influences of "degrowth" should be drawn out more? Equally "degrowth" extends well beyond economics: it is relevant to the social sciences and humanities in general. Perhaps this needs to be made clearer also? User1756 (talk) 16:13, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

It may be constructive to distinguish between the specifically economic theories of 'degrowth', and the wider cultural influences lying behind the more general degrowth movement. User1756 (talk) 13:20, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

In addition to Georgescu-Roegen, who wrote his treatise in 1971, and who is considered one of the more important contributors to "degrowth", one has also mention Frederick Soddy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Soddy) who wrote about thermodynamics and economics in 1921, a full 50 years before Georgescu-Roegen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bthomson100 (talk • contribs) 08:27, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Population Limitation
Surely this is also an essential component of a stable zero-growth society. 31.54.50.138 (talk) 23:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

third world section pov
I find this section very problematic. In particular the claim that "lesser-developed countries... require the growth of their economies in order to attain prosperity" is not a neutral position, but an apparently neoliberal political position that defines prosperity in terms of capitalist economic growth. While this argument is sometimes evoked by third world governments, it is not the opinion of many third world people, in particular indigenous people, who have regularly criticized economic projects as a colonial imposition. Owen (talk) 15:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Right, because you know, poor people really want to stay poor. What's "neocolonial" is making these kinds of ridiculous arguments. Volunteer Marek 02:14, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

COI
Per the connected contributor box above, a contributor has cited his own work in this article. Needs to be reviewed for NPOV. Jytdog (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I removed the WP:SELFCITE WP:PROMO in this diff. If someone independent wants to restore it (and tone down the promotion) fine by me. Jytdog (talk) 02:42, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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Improvement of the "Critiques of Degrowth" section
Hello fellow editors,

As part of a graduate class on environmental science research, I have improved the "Critiques of Degrowth" section over the past month in my sandbox and I am adding it to the main article today. I have not changed what was already written in that section (two paragraphs) and am just adding a bunch more sub-sections. Comments and modifications are welcome.

Cheers, Loftslag (talk) 16:46, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Alternative names for "degrowth" ?
Are there any alternative translations of French décroissance? Degrowth is quite a bad translation. Décroissance is cognate with decrease, so decretionism would be more literal. Also contractionism, anti-growth [philosophy], recessionism come to mind.Zekelayla (talk) 14:45, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

I have added a reference on this in the criticisms of degrowth. A-growth is a proposed alternative. The term "degrowth", although, is growing in popularity - there are now a few books on the subject (e.g. Degrowth books written by G. Kallis). Loftslag (talk) 18:36, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Change of the chapter 'Marxist critique'
It is not growth that is the focus of Marxists thought, but the theory of value. In Marxism, capitalist (as owners of the means of production) extract surplus value from work labor and receive more value out of the production circle than was invested in the first place. Moreover, this surplus value is reinvested (to accumulate and grow) by the capitalist due to competition with other capitalists on the market. It is these very configurations of the production relations that Marxists criticize. Therefore, the statement that growth is advocated by Marxists is inadequate. However, what a Marxist critique does say, is (as Jean Zin states) that the focus of critique should be on the production relations not on growth. This is why changes were made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaKnowledge (talk • contribs) 11:41, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Changes in the introduction of the dilemma chapter
Modernity has produced Liberalism which is perfectly embedded in Capitalism. Liberal values liberate and mobilize labor power. For instance, the supposedly gender equality provides the system with more labor power and many of the liberal achievements stabilized Capitalism by seemingly including their demands (Green Growth, Women’s Development, Sustainable Development etc.) while truly not tangling the root causes. Furthermore, the exploitation of women’s non-paid household work serves the purpose of cheaply reproducing the labor power. This, alongside with colonization, the plantation system, slavery and imperialism is what constituted and sustains the functioning of the capitalist system. Hence, there cannot be true gender equality and equality between people and countries within Capitalism. Degrowth promotes an economy based on the fair distribution among genders and the community. Overcoming Capitalism is therefore not a risk to loose “liberal” values but to create space to truly achieve them. Further explanation can be found in the reffered book (5). MaKnowledge (talk) 12:29, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of the chapter 'inter-personal violence'
This small chapter states first that inter-personal violence is reduced by a strong state system and second that Degrowth rejects such a strong state. Both statements are problematic. Inter-personal violence can be reduced by a state that has a monopole over it. However, how and against who this violence is executed. Liberal democracies with parliamentary representative political systems lack in direct control of the states use of violence. Moreover, the question of the state is being discussed within the Degrowth community: ome argue for a strong social state and others reject a powerful state while arguing for more democratic participatory tools and a shift towards self-organization as well as flat hierarchies. The source that is indicated by the author of this small chapter derives his or her information from only one sentence in which inter-personal violence is mentioned:

”If the ‘original sin’ of the liberal-capitalist polity was violence and forcible dispossession, an indisputable concomitant of the process of civilization (at least in the West) has been a marked reduction in levels of inter-personal violence within increasingly effective nation-states(Elias, 2012b; Quilley and Loyal, 2005).”

This is just one perspective among the many within the degrowth discourse and therefore doesn’t reflect the complexity of opinions. Hence, I suggest the deletion of the whole chapter and advocate for a deeper discussion of the state question in its place.

MaKnowledge (talk) 12:36, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of the chapter 'gender equality'
Women’s emancipation to the capitalist labor didn’t start in the 80s, but way before. In the transition from the feudal times to capitalism at the end of the medieval age, women were pushed into the domestic sphere (and became as non-paid workers conditional to the functioning of the capitalist system with doing the reproductive labour) while their men started to work in wage labor. Capitalism created the modern house wife. Later, with the industrial revolution women started to participate in wage labor. However, the increasing share of women working (especially in the Global North) either both tasks or shifts the childcare to other women who are working precariously. Degrowth emphasizes the importance of care-work and its fair distribution among genders and the community. Moreover, degrowth doesn’t promote a private life-style in the sense of “back-to-the-roots” but a slowly localizing production which neither excludes complex technology that serves the human well-being nor a global market per se. Consequently, there is no reason to assume that in a degrowth transition birth control technology would be limited at all. MaKnowledge (talk) 11:14, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your very informative feedback. I agree with most of it except for the technology aspect, which I think becomes complex when you look at the energy input and the infrastructure that is required to produce this or that good/service. It's risky to assume that in a world without fossil-fuels and lower amounts of energy available, it would be simple to keep birth control and internet, for example. This however mostly does not pertain to the gender equality section. Loftslag (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Copyvio-revdel?
There is a copyvio notice at the top of this article which draws unnecessary attention to a past violation of the policy. The violation is not on the page itself but in the edit history. However the particular piece from which the quotation is made is freely available on the web. It seems therefore unlikely that the copyright holders are objecting to its reproduction. Obviously we don't want gratuitous copying in Wikipedia but the use of copyvio-revdel seems excessive in this case. Chris55 (talk) 11:24, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * When a substantial amount of copyrighted text has been copied into Wikipedia, it's customary to pre-emptively tag it for revision deletion, even if it is posted elsewhere on the Internet and regardless of whether the copyright holder would likely object. An administrator will come by soon to review the tag and perform revision deletion if needed, and then remove the tag. You may be interested in a recent preliminary discussion about making the copyvio-revdel banner less prominent (see Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations/Archive 1). DanCherek (talk) 11:44, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, but I thought it was customary to put these sort of administrative requests on the talk page where it doesn't interfere with normal reading. Chris55 (talk) 13:12, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * In its current usage, the template has to be placed on the article page, not the talk page; see Category:Requested RD1 redactions for other examples, though moving it to the talk page was one option that was mentioned in the discussion I linked above. DanCherek (talk) 13:18, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

1.3	Degrowth and sustainable development[13]
Having a ref in the heading is inappropriate. I am not sure where to put it as it is a very useful source. Any suggestions? Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 01:40, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

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Warning tags remain valid
The warning tags for this article look fully valid. There's some good stuff here, but lots of stuff in need of serious cleanup. Boud (talk) 20:18, 4 May 2023 (UTC) Actually, there's a lot of good material and sources, but a lot of copyediting is needed - there's still something of an essay style remaining, and I didn't do generic checks for copyright violations (some bits sound like copy/pastes). What's surprising is that there are currently 151 watchers who don't seem eager to bring the article up to standard ... Boud (talk) 22:49, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

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