Florent Marcellesi

Florent Marcellesi is a former MEP (Greens/EFA) and the former co-chair of the Spanish Green party Verdes Equo. He is a political ecology researcher and activist, a member of the editorial council of the magazine Ecología política, and a member of the think tank Ecopolítica. He is the author of several books on political ecology, post-growth, energy issues, and ecological and just transition. He is also a specialist and lecturer in international cooperation (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao).

The Americas as a horn of plenty

Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less

How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would post-growth have to put forward?

August 26, 2025