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Matt Orsagh

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Normalizing the conversation about a post-growth world.

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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 13h
The Challenge of Internal Nature Pricing degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-challe...
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The Challenge of Internal Nature Pricing
Can we adequately price nature? Should we even try?
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The stockmarket may not collapse in October … but it will. And soon.
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The Financial Spooky Season is Coming
Who should be afraid?
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People recognize that the society around them is fraying. Two-thirds of respondents (67%) say their country is more divided than a decade ago.
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Earth 4 All Survey: 2026
Yet another survey showing our leaders that we don’t want them.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-hundre... What if we got together as a planet and decided to dedicate 100 years to doing … nothing at all. #degrowth
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The Hundred Years’ Party
Just a good time for 100 years.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Energy, Surplus and the Economic Process degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/energy-sur...
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Energy, Surplus and the Economic Process
How we got here and where we are going.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Cake is Baked Each problem in our world has become a problem because a process, probably a very lengthy process, has played out for years, decades or centuries and has led to the current state of things - where the cake is already baked. #degrowth
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The Cake is Baked
Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The IMF Doesn’t Believe in Green Growth Their willingness to discuss the limits to growth out in the open will give permission to dozens of other firms who are having the same conversations internally. #degrowth
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The IMF Doesn’t Believe in Green Growth
Neither should you.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/how-to-get... We have created a country that lionizes greedy Machiavellian narcissists. We make sure they are in charge. We make sure there is no way to throw them out. And then we wonder how we got here.
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How to Get Rid of Bad Leaders
It isn’t currently possible.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Goliath’s Curse Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse gives us a preview of the collapse coming by investigating the collapses that came before. The collapses mostly came about due to societies made fragile by inequality and inattention to real important issues.
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Goliath’s Curse
A primer for what is coming.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
AI isn’t going away, but you can put some restraints on it. You can even use it to argue for a world where AI is heavily regulated and is treated like a common good that should belong to and be managed by the public. Someone should get on that. #degrowth
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I Asked AI About the Future
It gave me the wrong answer. Then a better one.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Economic Implications of a Baby Bust degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-econom...
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The Economic Implications of a Baby Bust
At some point, degrowth becomes inevitable.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This scenario is a best-case scenario for what to expect in 2050. The cake of collapse is already baked. That does not mean that humanity falls into despair and that everyone dies. What do you think? What is your best-case scenario for what the world looks like in 2050? #degrowth
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2050 Part 2
What happens if we make all the right decisions?
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This article is yet another piece of evidence that the post-growth reality we all see is becoming undeniable. So undeniable, that one of the world’s largest investment banks, and one of the financial world’s most prestigious journals feel that we should be talking about it. #degrowth
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Post-Growth Funds are Coming Soon
It doesn’t get much more mainstream than that.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
To What End? You begin to realize that we should devolve power down to communities, and follow a degrowth path that leads us to an economy that operates within planetary boundaries? . #degrowth
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To What End?
Start and finish with that question.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Reinventing Democracy After the Fall degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/reinventin...
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Reinventing Democracy After the Fall
Or better yet, before the fall can happen.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I encourage the degrowthers in this space to learn more about the DSA, and those in the DSA to learn more about degrowth. You are both trying to get to the same place. It will be easier to get there together. #degrowth
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Democratic Socialism and Degrowth
Do they go together?
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
EY Extractivism Report degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/ey-extract...
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EY Extractivism Report
Pass it around.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Breaking America open.substack.com/pub/degrowth... degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/breaking-a... How do you see the United States cracking up? #degrowth
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Breaking America
The United States will break up in the next 50 years. Maybe sooner.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Media Silence on Climate Change The freedom of media organizations to talk about climate is directly proportional to their ability to speak the truth about climate change - namely that addressing it will mean confronting our growth obsessed culture. #degrowth
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Media Silence on Climate Change
The incentive is to keep your mouth shut.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Philanthropy Should Aim to End Philanthropy open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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Philanthropy Should Aim to End Philanthropy
It doesn't ... yet.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Paradox of Sufficiency How sufficiency focused businesses operate in an environment that pushes them to grow profits at all costs. #degrowth
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The Paradox of Sufficiency
A template for making the sufficiency argument in business
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What if FIFA wasn't corrupt? open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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What if FIFA wasn't corrupt?
There's a metaphor in here somewhere.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A Light Degrowth Read for the Beach #degrowth open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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A Light Degrowth Read for the Beach
Embracing Post-Growth
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Eighty Trillion Stolen open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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Eighty Trillion Stolen
Let's get it back.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Another Attack on Degrowth open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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Another Attack on Degrowth
Bring it on.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/america-ne... #degrowth
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America Needs a Constitutional Convention
Hit the reset button.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Different Flavors of Degrowth open.substack.com/pub/degrowth...
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The Different Flavors of Degrowth
Which do you prefer?
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Lie at the Heart of Capitalism All societies have been shaped by the desire for more, because it’s a part of human nature. But how that desire is channeled depends on us. It depends on the stories we tell ourselves. You are allowed to push back from the table and say “enough”. #degrowth
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The Lie at the Heart of Capitalism
They say it's your fault.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A recent proposal to change Spanish law to give workers more voice and power in the corporations they work for failed to become law - but laid down a blueprint for others to follow. #degrowth
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Spanish Legislative Bombs
The proposal did not become law - but laid down a marker.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you are looking for a community that is cleareyed about the problems of climate and overshoot, and uses economics based on reality to try to deal with these problems - you could do worse than the Society for Ecological Economics. degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-societ...
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The Society for Ecological Economics
Check them out. You might like what you see.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The reality of the limits to growth are becoming clearer every day. At some point they will become too evident to ignore. A post-growth world is coming whether we speak about it or not. Why not lean into it? #degrowth
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Lean in to Slowing Global Growth
It beats the alternative.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The phrase “everyone gets a unicorn” is a way to say that everyone gets an extraordinary and magical thing, or more simply. An example would be a world in which every world leader decides to do the right thing tomorrow. This will not happen and to suggest it is within reach is dangerous. #degrowth
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Everyone Gets a Unicorn
The Global Justice Report
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-battle... #degrowth
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The Battle for Civilization is Raging
The verdict should be in soon.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-wellbe... #degrowth
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The Wellbeing Economy
People want it. Our leaders aren't there yet.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Today, young black men in the United States have direct control over whether people in the South will be happy or whether they will not. That is a great deal of power. It is power that is very easy to use, requires very little sacrifice, and can do a great deal of good.
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Power. Use it or Lose it.
A racial gerrymander can be undone by a few teenagers.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hawaii fires the first shot in move in defanging Citizens United. Will other states follow? degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/hawaii-tak...
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Hawaii Takes Back Its Power
49 states say ... "You can do that?"
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/monarch-bu... #degrowth
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Monarch Butterflies are Tough as Nails
Start the journey even if you won't make it to the end.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/how-to-do-... #degrowth
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How To Do Degrowth
In four easy steps.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/housing-is... #degrowth
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Housing Isn't Scarce
The will to make it available is.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/change-you... #degrowth
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Change Your Culture to Change the World
Changing what you measure isn’t enough.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Make Empathy Great Again
There is a device for that.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our economics are wrong. #degrowth
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/change-soc... #degrowth
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Change Societal Priorities. Change Who Owns It.
Blueprint for the end of shareholder primacy
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POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📢 Dream job alert for degrowth & climate justice folks 🌱✨ Research & Degrowth International is hiring a Communications Officer in Barcelona 🇪🇸. If you’re into activist comms, media strategy, social movements & ecology— this might be for you 💥 🗓 Apply by May 15 degrowth.org/blog/2026/04...
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Open call communications officer – degrowth.org
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#degrowth Insecurity is the natural state of our lives, yet we treat it as a shameful state of being that is short term in nature. Strength is a short term, often fleeting state of being that we try to convince ourselves is our natural state.
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Insecurity is Your Reality. Strength is an Illusion.
We must accept our collective insecurity to build collective strength.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/the-global... #degrowth
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The Global Approach to Poverty is Backwards
A new paper shows a better way.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A society that didn’t feel compelled to grow at all costs would see this as a ridiculously dangerous bargain, and never go down the data center road, and be much more deliberate and cautious about AI. We don’t live in that world. #degrowth degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-are-d...
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What Are Data Centers For?
For accelerating collapse ... for profit.
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/doughnut-e... #degrowth
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Doughnut Economics Guide for Policymakers
Share it with your local government
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’ll be in Washington DC this Thursday during DC climate week. I, and a number of others will be speaking on “Making Degrowth Happen”. Come to learn more and participate in a spirited discussion. Details below: luma.com/vgvvy01j
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Making Degrowth Happen: The What, How, and Why for Climate Advocates · Luma
Degrowth is an economic and social movement that aims to equitably transition our economy to a safe and steady state that operates within ecological limits…
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Matt Orsagh @mattorsagh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tell someone who doesn’t know about AMOC about AMOC shutting down and ask them what they plan to do when it does. #degrowth
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What the AMOC Shutdown Means for You.
Or, What if Europe Turned into the Arctic?
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