Timothée Parrique: "Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we meet with social scientist and researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University, Timothée Parrique.
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
About Timothée Parrique:
Timothée Parrique is a social scientist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).
He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled "The political economy of degrowth" (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L'économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a book adaptation in French of his PhD dissertation.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.6 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye |
| 0:23.2 | view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a |
| 0:29.1 | society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.9 | This week, we speak with Timote Parique. |
| 0:36.8 | Tim is a social scientist and ecological economists originally from Versailles, France, |
| 0:43.8 | now teaching at Lund University in Sweden. |
| 0:47.6 | Tim has a PhD in economics specializing in degrowth, and he's written numerous books |
| 0:53.4 | and frequently blogs on the issues with green |
| 0:57.2 | growth and energy and material decoupling. Tim is a passionate, bright young man who I'm pleased |
| 1:03.7 | to welcome to this podcast. In today's conversation, Tim and I discuss why infinite growth of any |
| 1:10.4 | kind is simply impossible. |
| 1:13.2 | And we define and unpack what degrowth is, what it looks like, how the path to degrowth |
| 1:19.4 | may unfold, and what are the social and physical obstacles between here and there. |
| 1:26.1 | Here is Tim Timothy Parique. |
| 1:40.0 | You are quite young to understand all this stuff. |
| 1:43.1 | When I was your age, I was watching Love Boat and Fantasy Island and not remotely thinking about these things other than my love for animals. |
| 1:50.2 | What was the eye-opener for you as to why the current economic system is not sustainable? |
| 1:57.5 | And what sent you down the path that we're going to talk about today? |
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