This is before we get to the nasty issue of how to break the power of big business over most governments, so that majority-willed change can be applied. This is not a defeatist approach. On the contrary, I think we are ignoring factors which could work in the broad direction desired here. We should guard against a bunker mentality, of shutting everything out.
Population increase is the most obvious block to an anti-growth movement.
This is the kind of thing I'm hearing between the lines in some of the posts. We could not of course do this, even as it might be comforting to be able to imagine that. We must not be King Canutes. People may want to harmlessly enjoy themselves a lot more than do many members of this seminar. To sell it on the scale necessary for success, anti-growth must be packaged imaginatively and be more focused.