#97 Matt Orsagh: Is There a Case for Degrowth?

Is infinite economic growth compatible with life on a planet with finite resources? In final episode of Frankly Speaking this year, Richard Howitt was joined by Matt Orsagh, co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance and former Senior Director of Capital Markets at the CFA Institute, to confront one of the most controversial questions in sustainability today: is it time to move beyond growth itself? Together they discussed whether conventional sustainability thinking is no longer enough as well as the Arketa Institute’s latest paper By Disaster or Design . You’ll also hear about: Why climate action based on green growth and energy efficiency may actually increase total resource use How Jevons Paradox undermines many well-intentioned sustainability strategies What the planetary boundaries framework reveals about how close we are to ecological breakdown Why decoupling growth from emissions is, in Matt’s view, a mathematical impossibility Matt’s belief that prosperity must be redefined beyond GDP and wealth accumulation What a post-growth, locally-rooted financial system could look like in practice Matt’s perspective on the crucial role of imagination in designing a viable future Listen in and

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#97 Matt Orsagh: Is There a Case for Degrowth? is an episode from Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business by Frank Bold.

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This episode was published on Dec 29, 2025.

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