Giorgos Kallis

Giorgos Kallis is an environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology. Before coming to Barcelona, he was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley. Giorgos holds a PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece, a Masters in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Masters in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelors in Chemistry from Imperial College, London.

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.

April 30, 2019

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.

March 12, 2019

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.

January 3, 2019

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.

January 2, 2019

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.