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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 3609d0b..6bb2b29 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -262,12 +262,11 @@ classifies as quarter of UK households as having 'low financial resilience' and estimates that barely half have enough cash to make it 3 months without borrowing if their main source of income were cut off [@financial-lives-2024]. -For many, the prospect of 'buying less' is not 'liberating,' it's the gaping -fear of an empty stomach or the knock of the debt collector. It's hardly -surprising that the de-growth movement has remained largely academic, with -little impact on politics, and indeed a vague grasp on what de-growth policy -would actually mean in practice or who you could possibly convince to make it -happen. [@vansintjan-2019; @cosme-2017] +For many, the call to 'buy less' is not 'liberating,' because it's the call of +the bailiff. It's hardly surprising that the de-growth movement has +remained largely academic, with little impact on politics, and indeed a vague +grasp on what de-growth policy would actually mean in practice or who you could +possibly convince to make it happen. [@vansintjan-2019; @cosme-2017] A little better is proposing market-based policies like carbon taxes. But there is no credible route to implementing and sustaining an effective carbon tax, |