ROAR Roundtable: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
By Kai Heron, John Bellamy Foster, Thea Riofrancos, Lavinia Steinfort, Giorgos Kallis, Max Ajl, Brian Tokar, Hilary Moore, ROAR Magazine
COVID-19 has forced a re-evaluation of nearly every aspect of how we fight for social and ecological justice. Yet, when it comes to the issue of climate change it can seem as if the virus has changed everything without changing anything at all.
Defending Degrowth is not Malthusian
By Giorgos Kallis, Degrowth.de
In my book I show how such romantic (and related socialist, feminist and anarchist) ideas articulate a notion of limits as a source of freedom and abundance. Likewise, those of us who defend degrowth today do not call for limits because the world is running out of stuff. We are not worried that growth might come to an end – we want to end growth and stop its catastrophic and meaningless path, despoiling the abundance of this planet that we can enjoy in common.
Degrowth is Utopian, and that’s a Good Thing
By Giorgos Kallis, Uneven Earth
Reality is complex, what is possible and what not is hard to know, and the roads to ecosocialism (or however else you might want to call an egalitarian and sustainable future) are many.
A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth
By Giorgos Kallis, TruthOut
The lower the level of energy use, and the smaller the economy, the easier it is to decarbonize, and the fewer impacts that will be caused along the way. There is no reason for someone concerned with climate and the environment to advocate economic growth.
Beyond the Choke Hold of Growth: Post-Growth or Radical Degrowth?
By Riccardo Mastini, Tim Jackson, Giorgos Kallis, Green European Journal
In part two of Riccardo Mastini’s interview with Giorgos Kallis and Tim Jackson at the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament, they trace the history that led to growth being prized above all else and discuss how to conceptualise a future beyond growth.
The Politics of Post-Growth
By Riccardo Mastini, Tim Jackson, Giorgos Kallis, Green European Journal
In the first part of a two-part interview, Riccardo Mastini discusses the possibilities and challenges for imagining a world beyond growth with two key post-growth thinkers at the conference.
Is Growth Natural or Inevitable?
By Giorgos Kallis, Degrowth.de
One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes.
Has Degrowth Outgrown its own Name?
By Kate Raworth, Giorgos Kallis, Commons Transition
How useful is the term "degrowth"?