Environmental Crisis: death knell for the planet or unprecedented opportunity?

The environmental crisis is very threatening, but it also provides an opportunity to move beyond unsustainable - and in many respects unpleasurable - ways of working and consuming and to open ourselves to the attractions of a less growth-driven existence. If richer societies were to accept a less expansionary, more reproductive material style of living in exchange for more free time and cultural and recreational provision for enjoying it then the worst abuses of the environment can be corrected, runaway global warming can be kept in check, and exploitation and inequality, within the nation state and globally, can begin to be more effectively addressed.

Kate Soper is Emeritus Professor of philosophy, having taught at Sussex University, University of North London, and author of [Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism][1] (2020).

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