Less Is More

Un muy buen libro. Tanto para quienes estén ya interesados en el tema como para quien venga de primeras.

Bien estructurado, te contextualiza tanto las raíces ideológicas y existenciales del capitalismo, como su crecimiento nos lleva al colapso medioambiental y humano, los distintos motivos de esta "necesidad" del crecimiento continuo para las elites financieras y productivas y una serie de soluciones propositivas en torno al decrecimiento y el bienestar humanos. Todo esto plagado de referencias y datos contrastados.

El llibre que TOTHOM hauria de llegir. Imprescindible per entendre la situació actual a nivell econòmic i ecològic. No l'he pogut trobar en català, però sí que s'ha publicat en espanyol.

This book, ostensibly, argues that capital's endless pursuit of growth will only end in ecological catastrophe and that only by rejecting perpetual growth, and by extension capital, can we live truly fulfilling lives. I have no problem with this, and actually support this thesis. The problem arises when the author attempts to try his hand at history and bourgeois philosophy. As I've said previously, he attributes outright malevolence to actions that could easily be explained by trying to do well within imperialist/colonialist systems. Furthermore, it's painfully clear that the author has only read the wikipedia articles on the philosophies he critiques. This is doubly unfortunate because I actually agree with his conclusions regarding bourgeois philosophy and how it has historically been used. The analysis is just not up to snuff unfortunately. With a little more time and effort, this could have been great. As it is, it's just okay.