Inter Press Service: Serge Latouche, professor emeritus of economic science at the University of Paris-Sud, is one of the main proponents of "the society of de-growth". He calls for "abandoning the objective of growth for growth’s sake, an insane objective, with disastrous consequences for the environment." The need for a ‘de-growth’ society stems from the certainty, he says, that the earth’s resources and natural cycles cannot sustain the economic growth which is the essence of capitalism and …