Conor here: The following certainly sounds preferable to our current trajectory of degrowth courtesy of war and climate destruction. The “what” and the “why” to it are obvious, but the “how” is always the issue, and one can envision quite a few obstacles with what is laid out here.

By Charles Gasparovic, a neuroscience researcher living in Spain. Originally published at Common Dreams .

Wars and riots, autocracies and teetering democracies, extreme poverty and rapacious wealth, environmental collapse—that’s us. But do we have to be that way?

A grassroots movement thinks not. And its core vision has reached the top levels of academia and international governance. Various proposals have been put forward on how to get there but all agree on one thing: We have to stop growing.

In fact, the idea of infinite growth on a finite planet doesn’t make sense to most people. Yet that’s precisely the basis of most national economies today.…