Our day-to-day experiences over the past decades have taught us that there must be limits to our tremendous irrational appetite for energy, natural resources and consumer goods. The economic mantras of infinite growth remain divorced from the biophysical limits of the earth.

Degrowth is grounded in ecology, ecological economics, anthropology, psychology, and social sciences. The focus is on future sustainability, a balanced life, liberty and social justice. Moving away from the old maxims of capitalism and growth.

The book is a journey documenting human societies (big and small) that evolved and collapsed over the last 10,000 years. Always linked to the environment and our tryst with progress. The specter of overshoot and collapse of many civilizations.

Is it too late to avert catastrophic damage from the direct and indirect impacts of climate and ecological damage? The objective is individual and collective resilience (capacity) to face (adapt) climate change and near term collapse.