On Technology and Degrowth
Degrowth scholarship embraces technological change and efficiency improvements, to the extent (crucially) that these are empirically feasible, ecologically coherent, and socially just.
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Against AI sensationalism
Yes, AI is scary, but it is ultimately a reflection of our current system, and it is the introduction of AI into an already repressive environment that we must question.
It’s time for tool libraries to go global
Tool libraries have the potential to simultaneously decrease material usage and increase access to material goods, both of which are needed if we are to create a more equitable and ecological society.
Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts
Ending the unequal exchange that traps the Global South in poverty and extractivism and paving the way for a degrowth transition will require an alliance of countries prepared to default on their foreign debts, and strong movements in the Global North ready to defend them when they do.
Guess What Has Decoupled from Economic Growth?
To promote both human health and environmental quality, countries would focus not on growing the GDP, but rather on different goals including education.
The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis: Opportunities and Challenges
Politicians and economists may dismiss the commons with a wave of the hand, but commoners understand a deeper truth – that the presumptions of capitalist modernity are profoundly flawed, if not already collapsing.
The Global Energy Transition: A New Vision
Are we capable of reforming our relationships with each other as well as with the planet? Nothing short of that will suffice.
Everything you wanted to know about SolidarityWorks
In a time of growing social and environmental challenges, the need for radical, bold, and fresh ideas could not be more clear — reshaping our climate and society requires creative alternative models for living.
From Affirmative Action To Reparations: Bridging Racial Economic Inequality
Despite the regressive moves of the Supreme Court to hinder affirmative action in addressing racial inequality, communities across the country are providing a path forward to finally repair the racial inequality that has plagued the nation for so long.
Beyond Growth 2023: critical reflections on a “historic conference” with blind spots.
As historic as the conference may have been, much remains to be done to strengthen the degrowth paradigm and avoid its co-option by institutional politicians of all stripes, but also to create a genuine dynamic for transformation.
Cosmolocalism: the key to our economic transformation
We need a new economic system with which to replace today’s capitalist system, or we will be unable to avoid environmental catastrophe
How ‘locally led’ adaptation can help address climate change
The time is ripe for close engagement with what it will mean for adaptation to be locally led.
