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

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

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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

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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

20 Reasons to Prefer Degrowth to the Green New Deal (as a political option to address the collapse of civilization)

Degrowth carries within its own name an unmistakable message about its content (stop growing) that gets to the heart of our civilizational problem: the obsession with perpetual growth.

December 16, 2020

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