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Josh Farley

Josh Farley

Aug 11, 2026

4:23
Josh, explain in, in a little bit more detail kind of the, the degrowth philosophy.
4:28
Probably the easiest way to explain it is with an analogy.
4:31
So degrowth looks at we have to live within our income, and our income is the capacity for ecosystems to capture solar energy and generate all the raw materials required for any economic production and to absorb the waste from our economic production.
4:44
So right now, we are living well beyond our income, which is evidence that our CO2 emissions dramatically exceed waste absorption capacity, are, you know, eroding our soils faster than the soils can be regenerated.
4:57
We're using up aquifers faster than they can regenerate.
5:01
So we're living well beyond our income, and it's not just that we have a finite income.
5:05
If you think of it as we have a natural trust we inherited, just like you inherit a trust fund, we inherited a natural trust.

10 MINS LATER

14:53
Yeah.
4:23
Josh, explain in, in a little bit more detail kind of the, the degrowth philosophy.
4:28
Probably the easiest way to explain it is with an analogy.
4:31
So degrowth looks at we have to live within our income, and our income is the capacity for ecosystems to capture solar energy and generate all the raw materials required for any economic production, and to absorb the waste from our economic production.
4:44
So right now, we are living well beyond our income, which is evidence that our CO2 emissions dramatically exceed waste absorption capacity, are, you know, eroding our soils faster than the soils can be regenerated.
4:57
We're using up aquifers faster than they can regenerate.
5:01
So we're living well beyond our income, and it's not just that we have a finite income.
5:05
If you think of it as we have a natural trust we inherited, just like you inherit a trust fund-

10 MINS LATER

14:53
Yeah.

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