Degrowth: The Conceptual Confusion Continues

By Kevin Carson. Original: Degrowth: The Conceptual Confusion Continues, April 1, 2025. Translated into Italian by Enrico Sanna. In an essay written in 2019 for the Center for a Stateless Society (We Are All Degrowthers. We Are All Ecomodernists), I argued that the discourse for and against degrowth is almost incoherent because neither side bothers to clearly define the concept of “degrowth,” much less maintains a coherent definition. And Paul C…