DEGROWTH, TO PUT IT SHORT

Column By Paolo Cacciari

Degrowth, however defined (peaceful, happy, voluntary…), is an easily misconceived, controversial concept. The International Meeting's purpouse will be to give some fulfilling answers. In the meantime, this website will try to explain it by means of a comprehensible language, As if talking to our sons, daughters, and nephews.

  Everybody is a street sweeper!   It takes a little environmental knowledge. The best one is taught and learnt at home thanks to the big game called “separate collection of rubbish”.   In nature rubbish does not and cannot exist. If nothing is created or destroyed, then this means that everything is processed. Trash is made up of objects and food that have been rejected because we do not want or are not able to use any longer. But their material essence does not stop being there. Apparently the english term “waste” comes from the latin word “vastus” and has the same etymology as “devastate”^.

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