Ecological Sustainability and Degrowth

<p><em>Ecological sustainability recently has become a crucial matter of discussion. The sustainable development, which has been denoted as a solution to the threat of the ecological crisis, endorses the idea that the ecological problems can be overcome within the limits of the prevailing economic paradigm. On the contrary, this prevailing paradigm is based on the increasing production and consumption which jeopardise a possible solution. De-growth literature and movement is an emerging debate on the questions that arise from the ecological sustainability perspective and it represents an alternative conceptualisation of the ecological problem. In this point of view, the solution to ecological problem is only possible within a new social order that is based on less production and less consumption, namely de-growth. In this manner, also it might be possible to alleviate the social inequalities globally . </em>