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In this wide-ranging book, Ludovic Viger explores how we can thrive when the economy slows down and even shrinks. We are facing a period of degrowth because the time of Cheap Oil, which has fueled our economic growth since the Industrial Revolution, is over. What's more, our current high-consumption lifestyle is making energy demands that will soon outstrip the capacity of the environment to renew ... Read more

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