As with "defund" (weak-sauce!), we must perhaps liberate the prefix. "Do the de-!"
Seriously, though, complaint against the term degrowth is one's foot in the door.
"People want growth and we should..." Okay, stop, before that other bit, tell me more about that first bit. Why do people want growth?
Who are these "people", exactly? No, let's get specific. Let's talk lives, not abstractions.