Seven-Point Democratic Degrowth Program of Serge Latouche

Policy Proposals

- 1) we need to return to the 1960/70 level of material production, in order to be compatible with the footprint of one planet

- 2) internalizing transport costs

- 3) re-localize activities

- 4) promotion of the production of relational goods

- 5) reduce energy usage by a factor of 4, the so-called Negawatt Scenario

- 6) penalize advertizing

- 7) adapt new agricultural progress on the lines of the proposals of the Confederation Paysanne

Source: Mauss Review 26 on Alternative Democracy and Alternative Economy