> ...if all countries decide to degrowth, ... Countries don't decide to degrowth -- people are certainly not willing, right now, to make such decisions. Other

> ...if all countries decide to degrowth, ... Countries don't decide to degrowth -- people are certainly not willing, right now, to make such decisions. Other people make those decisions and force them on people. > but one doesn't play ball. And why wouldn't some country play ball, if not because it's better for it to keep growing and take advantage of other countries' partial suicides? All of this is premised on there being a current, extreme urgency for degrowth. The debates on that are hardly settled.