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My opinion/suggestion on this topic remains the same as it has been for the last 5 or 6 years, you've heard it before: (a) pick a country, (b) develop a full post-growth- / degrowth-based macroeconomic policy with a proper set of roadmaps, projects and indicators for the targeted country, (c) run for x years this policy on multiple different economic simulation engines/tools that, regardless of their flaws, are 'accepted' by the economics 'mainstream', and (d) hopefully show them in their own simulation/tool 'comfort-zone' that your proposals can actually work in 'their' 'real' world. Of course, you know better about the flaws of their models and tools, and how this all permeates their advice and decisions, but for ideas to breakthrough this wall, it will have to come in their format first. And from there, adjust. Basically, gently say "here comes the aeroplane" while you feed the kid the broccoli. You get my point. And you know how to use system dynamics. It is a lot of work, yes, but I think here lies the bridge between talking about it and starting to move the needle, of going practical. Best wishes.

Merci beaucoup! This will hold me over until the book is published in English :)

2:06 Chapter 1 - The Secret Life Of GDP 8:29 Chapter 2 - Decoupling Debunked 15:08 Chapter 3 - Market V.S. Society 23:04 Chapter 4 - False Promises 28:27 Chapter 5 - A History of Degrowth 37:53 Chapter 6 - The Transition 50:03 Chapter 7 - The Destination 58:18 Chapter 8 - Controversies

Finally, someone is SAYING it, telling the truth. Thank you Timothee!

Decroissance ≠🥐🥐🥐🥐🥐 (des croissants)🙂😋

"Notre croissance n'augmente plus notre qualité de vie." Merci Timothée Parrique de mettre en évidence la faillite du capitalisme en une seule phrase.

very interesting... because I gather if GDP is nothing but adding how much money moves around in could be said that people fleeing due to some menace and selling their homes would count as economic growht but in reality is is far from it. Also, for those economists when they say growth, they really mean profits, and in a capitalist economy continuous growth is believed to ever bring growing profits... and who profits?... not the employees, unless not being fired is considered a gain. Then there is the eocological, energy and resource aspect. Since growth is linked to available energy, what happens when the energy availability dwindles?

Great presentation, Timothee! Been following your stuff for about a year, as I've just found it, but going back and seeing other articles and research. Very good. Very sound. Very obvious. I like the clear diagram of what capitalism is and what a new "sustainability-wellbeing-ism" system would look like. You are absolutely right, we need to measure concrete objectives that we actually want to achieve and forget GDP. Nobody will care about GDP in 100 years - IF we make it that far - because GDP and infinite growth is clearly not sustainable. Let's move in a new direction. I really like the ecological luxury that can come from a Library Socialism-style development, especially for high income nations, like Canada, USA, EU, etc. which already have produced a lot of stuff, but distribution is poorly done. Bring back the 'commons' and then everybody can access what they need with less ecological damage required to create that.

I feel so lucky to have found your work. Yanis Varoufakis published a video today with Jason Hickels. I think Degrowth is gaining momentum thanks to voices like yours and Jason’s. Kate Raworth is another brilliant proponent of Degrowth ❤

Capitalism isn't going anywhere. That's non-negotiable.

19:25 "What does that have to do with capitalism?"

What a loonie! Am I as a tax payer paying for this crazy guy? A typical watermelon, red on the inside and green on the outside!

It's interesting that you are too afraid to engage with John Stossel. He is a well respected journalist with years of experience. Saying he doesn't meet your journalistic standards is just another way of saying you can not back up your thesis and you are scared to do so. It's got to be tough when you are unable to defend ( if need be) your lives work on a large stage. Much larger than anything you have presented on in your career. You sir, are a eunuch.

Nonsense. We need more growth and capitalism.

Dommage que ce ne soit pas en français!

I think degrowth can be done individually, as I, and many others, have done it. I don't see a democratic will to do it on a planetary scale. So at this time, the most effective solution remains decoupling growth and ecological footprint. And I think it is working and growing exponentially. I also think degrowth is an accelerator to transition the economy to become sustainable. Ultimately we will continue to grow, within planetary limits.

Hi Timothé congrats for your amazing researching in degrowth...when will your books trasnlate into Spanish????

Awesome ... a really smart young guy with a real climate crisis solution. On paper anyway. How to actually make the shift a popular move?? Not likely with the Baby Boomer mindset.

There is Simon Kuznetz Economic University in Kharkiv, Ukraine...So Simon Kuznetz is not russian...because russians not only steal names (Rus) from Kyiv for their Moscow Federation, but also steal scientific and cultural achievements of Ukrainians, by calling Ukrainians russians just because it was russian Empire or Soviet Empire or now Moscow Empire...#banrussianpropoganda#banrussians

Just quick note - Simon Kuznets is Ukrainian.

Thank you for an English language video!

How to make loads of money talking about "degrowth". Hypocrite.

Degrowth is a complete and utter con. It's invented terminology to make depravation both palatable and virtuous. It's socialism.

Thanks for the video summary, waiting for the English Version of the book.

Countries with sovereign currencies have no financial restraints. e.g. Australia, Japan, USA, UK NZ. They do have resource constraints. I'm not sure how the euro works.

Thank you !

Bonjour, Monsieur Parrique ! J'ai écouté plusieurs de tes interventions et tu es l'un de mes orateurs préférés actuellement, avec d'autres personnes inspirantes comme Charles-Hervé Gruyer, Vincent Liegey, Rob Hopkins ou Frédéric, de Tera. Ta clarté et ton enthousiasme sont parfaits. Tu fais apparaître combien nous aurions collectivement à gagner en qualité de vie, en richesse humaine, en bien-être à passer au modèle proposé par les tenants de la décroissance. Alors un immense merci ! Je te partage juste un regret : vu le propos "produire plus ou produire moins de telle ou telle chose", on se retrouve avec un biais quantitatif et il me semble primordial de poser systématiquement, en plus, la question de la qualité. Pas celle des normes ISO, celle des manières de faire, du comment. Dans mon domaine du bâtiment et de l'énergie, il ne s'agit pas de faire des maisons passives chères et avec des procédés et matériaux dégueulasses ; il s'agit de créer des habitats économes en énergie mais aussi propres à générer en phase chantier, sobres dans leur fonctionnement et durables, et ce avec des critères à la fois sociaux et environnementaux. Bref, la question du comment est fondamentale pour une vie et une société respectueuses du vivant et elle me paraît souvent négligée : soit non posée, soit mal traitée. Longue et belle vie à toi !

Salut, C'est quoi la limite planétaire du pétrole, elle produit combien de barils par an, la terre ? 😊

You guys are absolutely insane. This is basically just rebranded communism 2.0. You want welfare without economic growth? Are you crazy? Forget the whole elephant in the room about no economic growth, which is literally insane, and no person will willingly accept it, as it means a stagnation in the standard of living and a stagnation in the progress of humanity, because economic growth, and the increase in the standard of living is literally what wealth is, you cannot have no growth and increase your standard of living it's impossible, but i bet that you're not gonna be affected by it right? Rules for thee but not for me, just like any other wannabe communist dictator. Your words may fool or even sound smart to people who have no clue about how the world actually works, too bad, i'm not one of them. Forget that, how are you gonna fund welfare which is the cause of the vast majority of the debt in the west with no economic growth? In other words how are you gonna fund a system that is currently unsustainable with even less growth? The short answer is, you're not. You guys are so up your own arse that you lost the ability to think. It would do you well to read a few books, i suggest basic economics first, because that's frankly the level you're at. You need to learn basic economics, and you guys wanna run the world. Pathetic. No wonder the world is going down the drain. If this is the quality of discussions/people we have today. Your arguments do not just fly in the face of economics, but also in the face of basic reality, you will not succeed, it's just a matter of how many people you will kill if your ideas were ever to be tried. You people have been wrong about everything, maybe one day you will learn... Oh who am i kidding, you'll just double down again.

is there a plan for an English translation of the book? and if yes, when?

Thermodynamically, there is no such thing called Capitalism. This is owing to the fact that fossil fuels have been traded under the doctrine of what's called 'supply and demand', not on the basis the stuff is finite. What humans have lived, under our outgoing Western Civilisation, is actually the best of a Communism-disguised-Capitalism system. What remains in this system, now fossil fuels are mostly gone to the ground - is more deception, gulags and wars (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Ukraine, Russia, Sudan, and on and on). Nikola Tesla, Einstein, Huxley, Orwell, Turing and Timothée Parrique should be forgiven for thinking their systems can last forever - finite fossil fuels are dangerously hypnotic to humans and their mental capacity. Humans were not ready morally, ethically and intellectually to start mass extraction of fossil fuels with the steam engine 300 years ago. The Magna Carta requires now overhauling - adding to it the right for humans to understand what Energy really is; "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future"(2017).

Our Western Civilisation today is an injured animal - cannot tolerate realising - it has foolishly destroyed almost all fossil fuel reserves in 150 years to the ground - for nothing… Our outgoing Western Civilisation today is an injured, wounded and dangerous animal - that cannot tolerate listening to anybody - only escaping forward… Traumatised, out of the last ice age, the European mind dealt with exploiting fossil reserves - like no tomorrow - unwilling to hear a word from sunshine-latitudes on any of their ages-old Wisdom - “And neither allow thy hand to remain shackled to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to the utmost limit [of thy capacity], lest thou find thyself blamed, or even destitute” - Quran Treating the World as children, playing a nanny Civilisation - has been the wrong path for the West to take, since Jevons in the 1860s, at the latest - destroying all fossil reserves in a blink of an eye - when it should have lasted 3000 years - plus. Time to let people understand how harsh are the Laws of Nature - and let them having a real future - rather than playing a nanny Civilisation, a fake Invisible-Hand, a fake Social-Engineer, imprisoning them inside a vicious, theatrical, synthetic and nonsense Hollywood-style cockfight show, a reality of an - Energy Musical Chairs Game… A real future that has not been pre-decided, turned a dead history before it was even born - burning finite fossil fuels to waste in - killing the future… Nikola Tesla, Einstein, Huxley, Orwell, Turing and Timothée Parrique should be forgiven for thinking their systems can last forever - finite fossil fuels are dangerously hypnotic to humans and their mental capacity. Humans were not ready morally, ethically and intellectually to start the mass extraction of fossil fuels with the advent of the steam engine 300 years ago. The Magna Carta requires now overhauling - adding to it the right for humans to understand what Energy really is; “In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future”.

Dumber and dumber ...only a woke fool believes it won't cost more money than you have to go "green" now.

In rich countries there is more preservation of nature. There is no seesaw.

Please make a separate video on controversy part.

Bravo Timothée. Concernant ta dernière question : ils ont déjà choisi plusieurs fois depuis les années 70, tu connais très bien les preuves empiriques et les penseurs / chercheurs qui ont alertés au cours des 50 dernières années. De plus, je pense malheureusement que l’accélération du dérèglement climatique et les tipping point passés et à venir rendent déjà caduque l’idée d’une économie en steady state : une économie stable est elle possible avec un climat instable ? Spoiler: non. En tout cas bien belle manière de discuter le découplage, bravo. Les concept d’efficacité énergétique et de transition sont tout aussi factices. Tous les investissements verts, l’hydrogène et cie. sont ni plus ni moins des cas de mal adaptation qui servent les intérêts des energeticiens… vraiment, entre nature et gdp, le choix est fait depuis longtemps, y’a qu’à voir les méthodes d’environnemental valuation… bref, tant à dire là dessus. Merci en tout cas !

“If you stuck your head in the sand you can’t understand is” Albert Einstein

After Jesus delivered his message of love and equity the bankers killed him.

De notre chaise, on a du mal à se rendre compte le courage qu'il faut pour parler de décroissance devantune telle assemblée... merci donc Timothée Parrique pour cette allocution brillante courageuse et étayée La standing ovation est une belle récompense, il n'y a plus qu'à passer à la mise en place 😊

Merci de redonner de l’espoir :-)

Thank you for your work.

GREAT!

du Jamais vue bravo et merci Monsieur Parrique !!!

Bravo Timothée !

une allocution magistrale, la "standing ovation" finale ne laisse aucun doute là-dessus. Bravo pour votre travail!

A true scientist and an actual human being!

"In rich countries, when GDP goes up, Nature goes down. The real question is : which one do you really want to save ?" Timothée Parrique

Merci pour le passage en non-kids qui permet les partages Timothée ! Votre travail est remarquable !

Dear Timothée, we need to get rid of the corporate structures and compound interest. These are the main systemic problems.

This 3-part series was fantastic. Thank you!