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<p>This time Eric welcomes author and scholar Aaron Vansintjan to CounterPunch to discuss his new book &#8220;The Future is Degrowth&#8221; and all the relevant issues. The conversation explores the nature of degrowth as an inherently anti-capitalist idea and why it&#8217;s so necessary given the ecological crises of the 21st Century. Aaron answers many of the critics of degrowth about everything from charges of neo-Malthusianism to the myth of &#8220;automated luxury space communism.&#8221; ...