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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/profanite on 2025-07-09 11:40:31+00:00.

This BBC short documentary explores the idea of ‘degrowth’, to slow our economies, shift production towards only essentials, using simpler ways of living to reduce fossil fuel usage. They interview several academics at the forefront of degrowth ‘ecological economics’ and ask what this idea means and why we need it. Exploring the streets of Barcelona they find people exploring new ways of living in not for profit cooperatives, and students trying to find ways to get people invested in a vision of the future that isn’t centred on infinite economic growth. Slowly the idea that this infinite growth is not only unsustainable, but also dangerous is coming into the public consciousness “It’s like being on an aeroplane that just keeps accelerating”. People are beginning to realise that the façade of capitalism will eventually crumble, and we can begin to prepare and move away from it now, or watch it fall out from under our feet in the next few decades.