{What is Degrowth and can it Save the Planet? – Earth and Leaf editorial} {extract below}     What is Degrowth? ‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet? The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring In the run-up to the UK general election, the Labour party’s central offer to the public was a “laser-like” focus on economic growth. Its leader, Keir Starmer, promised to “take the brakes off Britain” and repeatedly said “ensuring economic growth will be fundamental”. In the weeks since the party was elected, it has regularly been grilled…