In response to climate change and environmental breakdown, degrowth has become one of the key concepts in political ecology and related disciplines. Degrowth provides a critique of the ideology of growth measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a core objective for capitalist economies. It argues that degrowth is possible, desirable and necessary to halt further ecological destruction and to build socially just and ecologically sustainable societies.
If a defeatist attitude means people just won’t procreate but still continue eating loads of animal products, not recycling (lmao) and regularly buying new things and driving everywhere- it would actually be a good thing for the hypothetical future where it’s possible to reverse the damage we’ve caused.