https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0021tt7/can-degrowth-save-the-world
Not the most cogent of productions for me, but worth a look if you have an open mind.
One analogy which strikes home is that continuous growth capitalism is like an aeroplane which has to keep accelerating in order to stay in the air - a dangerous place to be. I'd expand that to say that we're all strapped into our seats as we pass through what we hope is a temporary bit of turbulence, but we can see the bolts coming loose and the wings shaking more and more.
- Will we actually get to our dream holiday destination, or is it worth turning back?
There are the usual arguments against change balancing the programme of course, but few which join up and consider the difficulty of radical change with the severity of the perils we face.
I've seen the concepts of doughnut economics championed here before:
https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics
There's also an author, Gary Alexander, who I think is fairly local, whose ideas for a co-operative, socially and environmentally stable economic system might seem far out to some, but are a decent stab at a basis for keeping the human race and its interdependent co-passengers functioning on this ball of rock for more than a few decades.
https://earthconnected.net/egaia-2nd-edition/more-about-egaia/
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