Degrowth is consistently maligned and misrepresented by both "growthers" who strawman it and radical "degrowthers" who are actually primitivists. I am here to defend it.
An environmental science teacher I had in university called it "regrowth" and was extremely angry at the coopting of environmentalism by literal primitivist de-growthers. I held a lot of respect for him because of that, as he was focused on reducing the price/improving the efficiency of renewable energy production, rather than "just ban oil" or something terrible like that. He essentially framed it as a pursuit of higher quality and efficiency over quality.
An environmental science teacher I had in university called it "regrowth" and was extremely angry at the coopting of environmentalism by literal primitivist de-growthers. I held a lot of respect for him because of that, as he was focused on reducing the price/improving the efficiency of renewable energy production, rather than "just ban oil" or something terrible like that. He essentially framed it as a pursuit of higher quality and efficiency over quality.