incrementalism

incremental +‎ -ism

incrementalism (countable and uncountable, plural incrementalisms)

1. Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
   • 2022 July 18, George Monbiot, “This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather”, in The Guardian‎:

     We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask.

   • 2023 September 3, David Smith, “‘There’s a very real danger here’: AOC on 2024, the climate crisis and ‘selling out’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     And after a summer of extreme heat and wild weather, she evidently worries that incrementalism will not be enough to address a climate crisis that is crying out for revolution.