The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
We know it is empirically possible to achieve a just and sustainable world economy. But our hope can only ever be as strong as our struggle.
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Degrowthers Gain Support as Planet Cooks. Can They Ally With Green New Dealers?
A world of radical democracy and equality — of “public luxury and private sufficiency,” with much less hierarchy and much more free time — would enable historic advances in the quality of life for the masses even if some consumer goods disappear from the menu.
Imagining a postgrowth world
Human and earthly limits, properly understood, wrote the conservationist Wendell Berry, are not confinements, but rather inducements to fullness of relationship and meaning.
Degrowth: The awakening of consciousness before an alternative
Degrowth fights for the construction of positive, healthy scenarios for future generations, respecting the environment and cultural diversity through a reorientation of economic activity that abandons unlimited individual growth for a social growth that is measured, such that others can simply live.
Hannes Gerhardt: From Capital to Commons
While Big Tech monopolies, compliant legislatures and intelligence agencies have crushed the soaring ideals that one prevailed in Internet and hacker cultures, Gerhardt bravely argues that there are still ways that commoning and technology could engineer a transition away from capitalism.
The future earth is already here
We are busy trying to meet our own needs and care for our neighbors, human and otherwise, without industry. We are the shadow economy and we are a fairly robust system.
How economics abandoned time (to create a myopic culture)
We have squandered 80 years on a wrong conception of how our economy works. There is much to fix…
George Monbiot on factory farming: a Simpler Way critique
George has a long and heroic record of fighting for the environment. His latest campaign is to reduce the huge burden that farming inflicts on global ecosystems, by shifting much food production to high-tech “factory farming”. But he fails to see The Simpler Way solution.
The Barbie Backlash
We can exist in world that is both creating something better and destroying itself at the same time. That’s why I went to the Barbie party.
Hockey Sticks and Crosses
Two types of images are key to understanding current debates about economic globalization: the hockey stick chart, representing the stunning and inexorable growth of some phenomenon; and the cross chart, whose lines represent changes in relative power and prosperity.
Existing outside the box: How community-centred philosophies can help shape a degrowth society
In order to challenge existing systems or imagine a degrowth world, our solutions cannot be generated from within. We need a different, external perspective. Perhaps this is how Ubuntu and Indigenous peoples like the Achuar can help.
60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists
Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality.
