The problem of self-devouring growth

How should future health be measured, in light of the insights collected in this special issue? This afterword calls into question the imperative of economic growth, showing how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, produces profound collateral health effects, a process termed here ‘self-devouring growth’. I argue for a new mode of value in public health predicated on refusing any calculus that separates desired effects from collateral effects.