Mark Burton<p>"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else."</p><p>From my new article, Prospects for Degrowth 2025 – via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@degrowthuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>degrowthuk</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/prospects-for-degrowth-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">degrowthuk.org/2025/04/04/pros</span><span class="invisible">pects-for-degrowth-2025/</span></a></p><p>First of a series on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProspectsForDegrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProspectsForDegrowth</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/polycrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polycrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>