Matt Orsagh's Avatar

Matt Orsagh

@mattorsagh.bsky.social

Normalizing the conversation about a post-growth world.

167 Followers  |  115 Following  |  156 Posts  |  Joined: 21.02.2024  |  1.4757

Latest posts by mattorsagh.bsky.social on Bluesky

Preview
What do Post-Growth Businesses Look Like? They are all around you.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-do-po... #degrowth

04.12.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Surrender Do Not Submit

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/surrender #degrowth

Surrender is your own choice.

Submission is giving up, yielding your power to another.

01.12.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
What Happens to the Savings? It is dedicated to more growth

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-happe... #degrowth

24.11.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Sustainability is Dead Come on over to the Post-growth world.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/sustainabi... #degrowth

20.11.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Domination Systems vs. Partnership Systems Which one do you choose? Which one is chosen for you?

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/domination... #degrowth

17.11.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Another Business Publication Legitimizes Degrowth More please.

Thanks to the folks at Corporate Knights for interviewing me for a series of articles on the #abundance v. #degrowth argument.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/another-bu...

13.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you. Please share with others.

12.11.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Ecological Economics and #degrowth

11.11.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
Phantom Carrying Capacity Demographics are destiny

substack.com/home/post/p-... #degrowth

10.11.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Degrowth Has Finally Arrived Students are being overcharged to learn about it.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/degrowth-h... #degrowth

06.11.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Degrowth Can Address Overconsumption in the Global North And still allow the Global South to grow.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/degrowth-c... #degrowth

03.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
You Are Not Living In a Simulation Get over yourself

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/you-are-no...

If the people who believe these things could just be comfortable with the fact that they aren’t that important, we’d be a lot better off. #degrowth

30.10.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
America's First Bioregionalist Who you probably never heard of.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/americas-f... #degrowth

27.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Preview
What Does an Economy Without Growth Look Like? Like this ...

One of the main hurdles many people have with #degrowth is imagining what it would look like in practice. Most of us live in societies where the pursuit of growth is taken for granted as an unquestioned good, if not a necessity.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/what-does-...

23.10.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Survey Says We Hate Our Lives Media shrugs

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/survey-say... #degrowth

20.10.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
A New Renaissance You can have one if you choose to

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/a-new-rena... #degrowth

16.10.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
#1 - By Disaster or Design

Thank you to Gabriel Bonnamy at MIT who had me as his first guest on his Empty World Podcast. I am honored to be his first guest and know a few of the people who will be his upcoming guests. I encourage you to tune in. The people coming up are worth it. #degrowth

open.spotify.com/episode/28x0...

15.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
A New Dark Age Is that already in the cards?

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/a-new-dark... #degrowth

13.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Levers to Pull For the Change You Want It just may take a while

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/levers-to-...

#degrowth

09.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Looks Like We Made It They are coming for Degrowth. It's about time.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/it-looks-l...

09.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

One of these products is #degrowth and one is our current economic system. Which is better for you?

06.10.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Degrowth Won't Make You Poor It is just the path you take when you value the quality of your life over money.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/degrowth-w...

06.10.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

β€œIf degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”

06.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Climate Week What is the purpose of these meetings again?

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/climate-week

If your conference to save the world is trending on Instagram - you are doing it wrong. #degrowth

29.09.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Take Your Ball and Go Home Go find a better game to play.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/take-your-...

No one of you reading this has the ball by yourself. But if you form a large enough coalition, and act in solidarity, you can take the ball and go start a new game with rules that better serve you. #degrowth

25.09.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Abundance is a Dead End It's just a new wrapper on the status quo

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/abundance-...

#degrowth

22.09.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Potemkin Sustainability The green village was never there.

I challenge the sustainability professionals at #climateweek (and during every week) to take a long look at the sustainability world and ask if it is getting the job done.

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/potemkin-s...

18.09.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Preview
The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth - The Conduit Wed 17 Sep, 6pm - 7:30pm Ecological economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth on building a healthier and more humane society.

Came across this and thought I would share. Free online event listening to Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth talk about #degrowth, donut economics and the care economy. Tomorrow.

www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...

16.09.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Have We Had Enough of Capitalism? And why do we only get two choices?

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/have-we-ha... #degrowth

Capitalism is just a loose collection of people who have loosely agreed to loosely follow a loose set of rules that keep regulation loose so that those at the top can be loose with their ethics and be handsomely rewarded.

15.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Decisions Today to Impact Tomorrow Positive decisions today can have long-term impacts too

degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/decisions-... #degrowth

11.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@mattorsagh is following 20 prominent accounts