I Googled Jason Hickel and “degrowth” just yesterday after running into this thread. Though I’ve read many critiques of the dominant growth-oriented model, degrowth was a new word to me. I haven’t read Hickel either.
Like you say, I certainly think we can make a difference, but it will require a lot of work. After all, we live in a world where people waste food even at buffets. One would think that a buffet is the perfect system to avoid over- or undereating. Yet, people routinely take more food than they can eat and proceed to waste food with no hesitation at all. That this happens at buffets baffles me. The same attitude predominates everywhere else. Thanks for the introduction to Hickel – looks really engaging from what little I’ve seen on the internet.