Manuel Casal Lodeiro

Public speaker and writer on Degrowth, Energy Transition and threats to industrial civilization. Author of ‘Las verdades incómodas de la Transición Energética’, ‘La izquierda ante el colapso de la civilización industrial’, ‘We, the detritivores’ and editor of ‘Guía para el descenso energético’. Founder and editor-in-chief of multilingual ’15/15\15 magazine’, and coordinator of weekly radio program ’Vivirmos nun mundo finito’. https://casdeiro.info

What an overlooked oil protocol reveals about managing resource decline: An interview with Richard Heinberg

20 years after a global proposal to limit oil extraction, Richard Heinberg revisits its relevance in this interview and argues that equitable rationing may be key to reducing conflict and managing resource decline.

May 1, 2026

Longo Maid first agricultural cooperative

In Defence of a Basic Land Income

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.

February 2, 2026

building resilience

CDRCs: A proposal concerning work, resilience, and the repopulation of the countryside

The proposed model, Community Development and Resilience Cooperatives (CDRCs[1]), relies on three fundamental pillars to articulate its strategy: direct democracy, cooperativism, and agroecology.

December 10, 2024

Spanish degrowth proponents

One of Spain’s governing parties adopts degrowth

That we have to live within the limits of the planet was already clear; now we are going a step further and proposing that degrowth is a reality and that together we have to design a political roadmap so that this degrowth does not fall, as always, on the most vulnerable.

June 8, 2022

resilience chart

Resilience, Re-agrarization and Post-Growth in the post-COVID Galicia

The good news is that the path to both improving our resilience and making a viable Energy Transition to a low-carbon economy, while minimizing the chances of catastrophic climate change, is the same: planning a controlled and socially fair reduction of the material sphere of the economy.

February 16, 2021

Barcelona

The Degrowth platform of the CUP for Catalonia

The CUP programme advocates an Ecosocial Transition based on a degrowth of the economy in terms of  energy and materials.

February 10, 2021

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