[GemesAS]

I'm interested in environmental policy and dipped into reading the degrowth literature. IMO the review is correct, much of the academic degrowth literature is very weak--the field is more an activist movement rather than a scholarly one.

It's funny to think of applying degrowth to past environmental problems. Let's imagine it's 1900 and we are concerned about the sustainability of whale hunting, would degrowing the world's economy be the right approach then? Maybe that is too extreme, what about ozone depletion 50 years ago? Would strangling economic development & technological innovation back then lead to a desirable future?