"Degrowth is voluntary and democratic. It can’t be achieved through violence or unjustified coercion –– though of course nature is coercive and, as Hannah Arendt puts it, so is the truth. On the road toward degrowth, citizens of settlements ranging in size from neighbourhoods and hamlets to cities will need to share a favourable understanding of degrowth, and voluntarily participate in the labour necessary to achieve it"
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-13/familiarizing-degrowth-art-and-grounded-communities/