Mark H. Burton is an independent scholar-activist and former health and social care professional. He co-founded Steady State Manchester in 2012, now recognised as the voice of degrowth in Greater Manchester. He has written widely, with work collected in Steady State Manchester’s A Viable Future(2021/2023) and in publications on policy research, management, and applied psychology. His recent work focuses on the carbon impact of urban development and a degrowth-based political manifesto for the UK (Getting Real). He helps organise the Chorlton Arts Festival in South Manchester and the Support Group for International Degrowth Conferences, and co‑coordinates DegrowthUK. He is on Mastodon @[email protected].
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Life without oil: The Strait of Hormuz crisis is a warning for global systems under strain
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is disrupting supply chains just as previously suppressed government reports warn that ecological breakdown and resource depletion are converging into systemic collapse. This may be a preview of what lies ahead if we don’t confront this reality.
May 29, 2026
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.
October 30, 2025
Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far
What our series shows is that despite the storm clouds, there is a lively and pluralistic degrowth movement waiting in the wings, with a life-belt to hand, since it is degrowth that is the only hope for a viable future.
October 16, 2025
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
Here, perhaps is the secret to also countering the far right, not with ameliorative green growthism but with radical, redistributive, anti-commodity leftism – recovering that underground tradition of socialism that starts from a critique of capitalism’s turning everything into a commodity, and instead focusing on what we all need to lead a decent dignified life, within safe limits.
September 23, 2025
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint.
September 10, 2025
Prospects for Degrowth 2025
These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025?
April 8, 2025
