Used book – *Petit traité de la décroissance sereine* (A Small Treatise on Serene Degrowth), Serge Latouche

Exclusive " Degrowth is not negative growth. It would be more accurate to speak of "a-growth," just as one speaks of atheism. Indeed, it is precisely about abandoning a faith or a religion (that of economics, progress, and development).

While it is accepted that indefinite growth is incompatible with a finite planet, the consequences (producing less and consuming less) are still far from being accepted. But if we do not change course, ecological and human catastrophe awaits us. There is still time to calmly imagine a system based on a different logic: a "degrowth society." " S.L.

Serge Latouche is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Paris-Sud XI (Orsay). This "growth objector" continues the analysis he provided in Survivre au développement (Mille et une nuits, 2004) and then in Le Pari de la décroissance (Fayard, 2006).