Ideas Response

As Enough! we recognise there is as a battle of ideas and know that we are holding concepts and understandings that fundamentally and directly challenge the mainstream narrative of economy, good society and social/climate stability.

In a direct challenge to the orthodoxy of growth at all costs we are seeking to spread of the concepts of degrowth, deep adaptation and related ideas and explore what they would mean in a Scottish context. Our aim is to support the questioning of long held norms assumed in political dialogue and to help bring a robustness and credibility to disruptive, and potentially easily dismissed, ideas.

Degrowth (French: décroissance) is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas. It is also considered an essential economic strategy responding to climate breakdown.

Degrowth completely rejects mainstream economic and political thinking that assumes that endless choice and endless consumption are either socially productive or ecologically viable. It’s become very clear that ecological collapse and a parallel psychological disaffection is driven by human consumption and results in remorseless resource depletion. An independent Scotland must be alive to the new reality, to the opportunities for change and survival and to the possibilities of a society based on living and being not just consuming.