Economic growth is a hell we’re all trapped in

When Greta Thunberg told world leaders at the UN, “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” world leaders dismissed her.

If the people suffering and dying are the poor ones in the global south, they don’t count. They don’t spend, so they don’t count.