Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
As the global polycrisis worsens, transformational change will be significantly encumbered by crises, breakdown, and collapse scenarios.
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Remembering Jerry Mander
We too have had our great dreams, but now the corporate-run media, the corporate world, have them for us. Part of what Jerry Mander is crusading for is to encourage us to have great dreams again.
The case of sustainable clothing
Although I recognize that degrowth is not a certain theory but more of a pluralistic critical frame calling for socio-ecological transformations, here is what I managed to put together regarding the economic activities related to clothing inspired by degrowth.
It’s Getting to Look a Lot like Degrowth: Part 1
QED, civilization — as we know it today — cannot survive without economic growth. Ironically, that’s something pretty much everyone can agree on.
Tax Day
We evolved to experience this joy in eating nutritious food. And the peach exists merely to fill that need. We made it so… and now money stands in the way.
Not Banking on Banga
Banga needs to help the World Bank bring an end to the debt crisis and create real pathways for debtor countries to build resilience to climate change and volatility in the global economy.
What I learned from the British canals
The essential point is that economists’ competitive frame is falsely founded, and that our competitive social systems are spawning and reinforcing a dangerously myopic culture that is doing us a great deal of damage.
Escape from Overshoot: Excerpt
The immediate cause of overshoot is the combination of the massive increase in the number of people and what we produce made possible by the rapid and grossly uneven experience of economic growth of the past two hundred years.
Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
The power of universal public services is that we can improve people’s access to goods necessary for decent living, with provisioning systems that require less aggregate energy and material use and which allow us to accelerate decarbonization.
‘Farewell to Growth’ Serge Latouche (2007)
The degrowth movement exists to advance these difficult arguments – to take the large body of evidence as to why the current economic process is failing, and propose a range of alternatives which might avert the catastrophic failure of this system.
Alissa Quart’s ‘Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream’
In Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Alissa Quart – director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project – addresses the meritocratic delusion of the “self-made man,”….
Black radical imagination helps us transform our relationships to energy, land & economy
For those of us interested in exploring alternative visions for the future of land, economy, and energy, the answers on how best to achieve collective liberation may come in lessons hard-learned from the past.
