A #book in five minutes: This is a great overview and discussion of the current relevance of 'Small is Beautiful', which came out 50 years ago. It was a highly influential book that, sadly, fell out of favour. It was not only #Schumacher’s left-leaning view of #economics that became unfashionable; its calls for restraint and technological simplification did not fit into ideology of #green or ‘ethical’ consumerism which dominated the Western ecological debate from the early 1990s.

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#ecology #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism