Name: Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
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Author: Kohei Saito
ISBN: 9781662602726

portada Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

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Physical Book

Author

Kohei Saito

Publisher

Astra House

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781662602726

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

Kohei Saito (Author) · Astra House · Paperback

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Synopsis "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise. . . . [Kōhei Saitō makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? In his international bestseller, Kōhei Saitō argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for "sustainable growth" and a "Green New Deal" are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society--more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution. Instead, Saitō advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for: the end of mass production and mass consumptiondecarbonization through shorter working hoursthe prioritization of essential labor over corporate profitsBy returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.

Kohei Saito

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Kohei Saito (Tokyo, 1987) is an acclaimed Japanese economic philosopher. After earning his PhD in Philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin, in 2018 he became the youngest winner of the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for his work Nature Against Capital, translated into seven languages and praised as a monumental work by philosopher Slavoj Žižek. His second published book, Capital in the Age of the Anthropocene, has been a huge sales success in Japan, with nearly half a million readers, and received the 2021 Asian Book Award for best book of the year for capturing, with utmost clarity and great acceptance among young Japanese, the necessary change in our era. Currently, Saito is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo.

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