Instead of mass-producing useless and harmful products, this policy shifts production toward goods and services that actually improve lives and ecosystems.
Instead of mass-producing useless and harmful products, this policy shifts production toward goods and services that actually improve lives and ecosystems.
Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!
💡 Translation: Factories and businesses should serve people, not bosses or investors.
🏭 Support cooperatives and worker-owned businesses that prioritise social needs over profit.
🔄 Shift economic incentives away from endless growth and toward community well-being.
💡 Translation: No one needs more SUVs, but we do need better public transport.
🚗 Scale down or ban harmful industries—SUVs, arms, fast food, fossil fuels, advertising.
🔍 Regulate monopolies that exploit workers, extract resources, and concentrate wealth.
💡 Translation: When governments won’t act, the people will.
✊ Support strategic sabotage against exploitative industries.
💻 Promote digital resistance, like anti-capitalist malware programs exposing corporate abuses.
💥 Production should be about meeting needs, not creating profit-driven excess.
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