Description The term degrowth has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth.
Instead, degrowth advocates a contraction of economies by reducing production and consumption, arguing that it is possible to do so without reducing prosperity or wellbeing.
One might see in the degrowth community a resurgence of a radical theoretical and political variant of environmentalism, or ecologism, based on .