An abundant life does not have to be one full of consumerism and material possessions; degrowth demands a lifestyle change that, in theory, should not bother many people.

Sustainability practice in the early 21st century suffers from a 'materials blindness': the green technologies that designers were encouraged to specify cannot be manufactured without fossil fuels, so green design was complicit in the system it claimed to fix.

GDP is a poor measure of an economy because it counts the market value of everything produced but does not count the social and ecological costs of production.

Chasing ever-increasing GDP growth in the hope that it will solve social and ecological crises never works; the economy is like an airplane that must keep accelerating just to stay in the air, which is extremely dangerous.

Small individual actions can cause behavioral contagion, so helping people make slightly more radical choices can make them feel less trapped in the system than they assume.