Keynote by Hervé Kempf at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "The degrowth proposal: what is it about, how do we achieve it?"

Introduction French writer and journalist, H. Kempf is the author of How the rich are destroying the earth (2007), and of Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme (2009). These books, first published in French, where they are bestsellers, have been translated, for the first, in English, Spanish, Italian and several langages, and for the second, in Italian, Portuguese and soon in Spanish.