Degrowth: Solving the Impasse by Magical Thinking By Branko Milanovic - 23 February 2021 Branko Milanovic outlines the ideological divides and rhetorical tactics distinguishing degrowers and growers. The difficulty of discussion with degrowers comes from the fact that they and the rest of us live in two different ideological worlds. Degrowers live in a world of magic, where merely by listing the names of desirable ends they are supposed to somehow happen. In that world, one does not need to bother with numbers or facts, trade-offs, first or second bests; one merely needs to conjure up what he/she desires and it will be there.