Degrowth: No, Let’s Not Call It Something Else
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
We don’t need to change the name ‘degrowth’. What we need is for more of us in wealthy nations to intuitively associate the term ‘economic growth’ with ‘collapse’.
How change happens: Lessons from Australia’s bombshell election
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
After nine long years of an increasingly far-right, climate change denying Liberal National Party coalition (LNP) government, the citizens of Australia voted for change.
Degrowth is Not Recession. Nor is it Austerity.
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
If we are honest, it’s not the term “degrowth” that people don’t like, it’s what it means: we must reduce our material footprint so that we are no longer living as though we have two, three, four or five planet earths.
We are not supposed to live like this
By Erin Remblance, Resilience.org
What if, in trying to heal ourselves, we also begin to heal the planet? Because, in a wonderful turn of events, it turns out that what is good for us, is good for the planet too.
Decapitalising our minds: the key to addressing climate change
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
All paths forward come back to the fact that democracy is not a spectator sport. The worst – but unfortunately not all – of the climate crisis is avoidable, but doing so will require system change with urgency.
Degrowth Economy: Let’s Address the People and Planetary Crises
By Erin Remblance, illuminem
The planetary crisis is largely a by-product of the people crisis and both can be addressed with the one solution: putting people and the planet firmly at the centre of our economy.
Life in a Degrowth Economy and Why You’ll Love It
By Erin Remblance, Medium.com
We can either choose degrowth and actively work towards it, or we choose collapse by continuing with business as usual.